as in confluence
the coming together of two or more things to the same point the convergence of the city's major arteries on a single rotary

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Recent Examples of convergence Thanks to the convergence of genes, environment, and drive, Iexperience spasmodic joy about my unstinting love affair with language. Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Apr. 2025 Fueled by the convergence of AI, biotech and sensor technology, this is not a moment of incremental progress. Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025 The move highlights the plan, which involves government and research institutes, to turn the mine into a space resource convergence demonstration complex and help develop technologies that could extract useful resources from the moon. Andrew Jones, Space.com, 8 Apr. 2025 If cinema for more than 100 years was about the portal to a faraway world (who represents that better than Miyazaki?) and social media for the last two decades about putting ourselves at the center of the drama, OpenAI’s new tool brings them into perfect convergence. Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 1 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for convergence

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“Convergence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/convergence. Accessed 30 Apr. 2025.

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