Confluence
noun
A place where two rivers or streams join to become one.
The city was built at the confluence of two rivers.
Often appears as...
- point of confluence
- confluence of rivers
noun
A situation where several things come together, combine or meet.
The new policy represents a confluence of several different ideas.
Often appears as...
- confluence of ideas
- confluence of events
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Formal
noun
A place where two rivers or streams join to become one.
The city was built at the confluence of two rivers.
Often appears as...
- point of confluence
- confluence of rivers
noun
A situation where several things come together, combine or meet.
The new policy represents a confluence of several different ideas.
Often appears as...
- confluence of ideas
- confluence of events
Usage tips
Formal
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Geography Link
Often used in geography and travel contexts to describe the meeting of waterways.
We set up camp near the confluence, where the rapids calmed.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Just Rivers
Can describe any bodies of water joining, including underground streams or artificial channels.
The canals formed a confluence before reaching the open sea.
Pro Tip 3/3Strategic Locations
Confluences are historically chosen for settlements due to strategic and economic benefits.
Ancient civilizations often thrived at the confluence of trade waterways.
Pro Tip 1/3Geography Link
Often used in geography and travel contexts to describe the meeting of waterways.
We set up camp near the confluence, where the rapids calmed.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Just Rivers
Can describe any bodies of water joining, including underground streams or artificial channels.
The canals formed a confluence before reaching the open sea.
Pro Tip 3/3Strategic Locations
Confluences are historically chosen for settlements due to strategic and economic benefits.
Ancient civilizations often thrived at the confluence of trade waterways.
Pro Tip 1/3Geography Link
Often used in geography and travel contexts to describe the meeting of waterways.
We set up camp near the confluence, where the rapids calmed.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Just Rivers
Can describe any bodies of water joining, including underground streams or artificial channels.
The canals formed a confluence before reaching the open sea.
Pro Tip 3/3Strategic Locations
Confluences are historically chosen for settlements due to strategic and economic benefits.
Ancient civilizations often thrived at the confluence of trade waterways.
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Jacqueline Novogratz:...
who otherwise would not be able to afford them. I want to tell you two stories. Both of them are in Africa. Both of them are about investing in entrepreneurs who are committed to service, and who really know the markets. Both of them live at the confluence of public health and enterprise, and both of them, because they're manufacturers,
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The most colorful...
This shimmering, dazzling, dancing display of light comes about from a confluence of chemistry, geology, and optics that define opals from their earliest moments, deep underground. It’s there that an opal begins its life as something surprisingly water.
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Grand Canyon Adventure:...
you're basically destroying a shrine. - The confluence, little Colorado River meets the Colorado River. Where they meet, this is where life begins, this is what our grandmothers tell us. It is a sacred space, and we don't want to see
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The era of higher ideals...
was deeply thinking how and why we do business with a new management team in place so it was an incredible confluence of events and I didn't know it at the time but the age-old story of business was unraveling and you all know that
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The architectural wonder...
the cycle every 12 years, if you bathe at the confluence of these two great rivers you are freed from rebirth. It's a really compelling idea, you are liberated from life as we know it. And this is what attracts these millions.
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Jacqueline Novogratz:...
so they could take care of their families better. What we didn't understand, what was happening all around us, with the confluence of fear, ethnic strife and certainly an aid game, if you will, that was playing into
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Design at the...
We live in a very special time in history, a rare time, a time when the confluence of four fields is giving designers access to tools we've never had access to before. These fields are computational design,
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John Wesley Powell: From...
came to the confluence of the Grand and the green which forms the Colorado proper there's no way that I can describe it all I can say is that the canyons are so deeply incised there that
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The Secret of Musical...
so it wasn't just one thing that made aretha a genius it was a confluence of very specific rare ingredients that came together at a precise moment in history
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Jacqueline Novogratz:...
who otherwise would not be able to afford them. I want to tell you two stories. Both of them are in Africa. Both of them are about investing in entrepreneurs who are committed to service, and who really know the markets. Both of them live at the confluence of public health and enterprise, and both of them, because they're manufacturers,
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AK Finalist PIPE National...
would you choose i would trade places with george steller because he was one of the first europeans to glimpse alaska if someone gave you a free ticket to travel anywhere in the world where would you go i would travel to istanbul turkey because it has such rich culture due to the fact it's at the confluence of
Video examples
The most colorful...
This shimmering, dazzling, dancing display of light comes about from a confluence of chemistry, geology, and optics that define opals from their earliest moments, deep underground. It’s there that an opal begins its life as something surprisingly water.
Video examples
Grand Canyon Adventure:...
you're basically destroying a shrine. - The confluence, little Colorado River meets the Colorado River. Where they meet, this is where life begins, this is what our grandmothers tell us. It is a sacred space, and we don't want to see
Video examples
The era of higher ideals...
was deeply thinking how and why we do business with a new management team in place so it was an incredible confluence of events and I didn't know it at the time but the age-old story of business was unraveling and you all know that
Video examples
The architectural wonder...
the cycle every 12 years, if you bathe at the confluence of these two great rivers you are freed from rebirth. It's a really compelling idea, you are liberated from life as we know it. And this is what attracts these millions.
Video examples
Jacqueline Novogratz:...
so they could take care of their families better. What we didn't understand, what was happening all around us, with the confluence of fear, ethnic strife and certainly an aid game, if you will, that was playing into
Video examples
Design at the...
We live in a very special time in history, a rare time, a time when the confluence of four fields is giving designers access to tools we've never had access to before. These fields are computational design,
Video examples
John Wesley Powell: From...
came to the confluence of the Grand and the green which forms the Colorado proper there's no way that I can describe it all I can say is that the canyons are so deeply incised there that
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The Secret of Musical...
so it wasn't just one thing that made aretha a genius it was a confluence of very specific rare ingredients that came together at a precise moment in history
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Andre Aciman
American Writer
Proust is interested in minutiae because life, as he sees it, is seldom ever about things but about our impression of things, not about facts but about the interpretation of facts, not about one particular feeling but about a confluence of conflicting feelings. Everything is elusive in Proust because nothing is ever certain.
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Matt Czuchry
American Actor
Senior year in college, a kind of confluence of events came together to have me pursue a career in acting. I was planning on being a lawyer; I double majored in history and political science. I took the LSAT and did horribly on it, and that was one thing that made me rethink a new direction.
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Emily Maitlis
British Journalist
So often people read conspiracy into a thing when it's really a confluence of cock-ups and the wrong button being pressed at the wrong time, or the guest you wanted gets into the wrong taxi and doesn't show up.
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Michael J. Saylor
American Businessman
What amplifies the transformational power ahead is the confluence of two major technological currents today: the universal access to mobile computing and the pervasive use of social networks.
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Peter Coyote
American Actor
I think the '60s were an extraordinary time. I feel bad for the kids today who missed this wonderful confluence, which was simultaneously a confluence of the global and the mythological.
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Thabo Mbeki
South African Statesman
We are not being arrogant or complacent when we are said that our country, as a united nation, has never in its entire history, enjoyed such a confluence of encouraging possibilities.
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Paul Davies
British Writer
It will be in the convergence of evolutionary biology, developmental biology and cancer biology that the answer to cancer will lie. Nor will this confluence be a one-way street.
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Timothy Geithner
American Public Servant
Never before in modern times has so much of the world been simultaneously hit by a confluence of economic and financial turmoil such as we are now living through.
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Michael Bolton
American Musician
It's a combination of melody and lyrics, not one without the other. It's a confluence of these different elements that makes something powerful.
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Michael Morpurgo
English Author
A notion for a story is for me a confluence of real events, historical perhaps, or from my own memory to create an exciting fusion.
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Andre Aciman
American Writer
Proust is interested in minutiae because life, as he sees it, is seldom ever about things but about our impression of things, not about facts but about the interpretation of facts, not about one particular feeling but about a confluence of conflicting feelings. Everything is elusive in Proust because nothing is ever certain.
Quote examples
Matt Czuchry
American Actor
Senior year in college, a kind of confluence of events came together to have me pursue a career in acting. I was planning on being a lawyer; I double majored in history and political science. I took the LSAT and did horribly on it, and that was one thing that made me rethink a new direction.
Quote examples
Emily Maitlis
British Journalist
So often people read conspiracy into a thing when it's really a confluence of cock-ups and the wrong button being pressed at the wrong time, or the guest you wanted gets into the wrong taxi and doesn't show up.
Quote examples
Michael J. Saylor
American Businessman
What amplifies the transformational power ahead is the confluence of two major technological currents today: the universal access to mobile computing and the pervasive use of social networks.
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Peter Coyote
American Actor
I think the '60s were an extraordinary time. I feel bad for the kids today who missed this wonderful confluence, which was simultaneously a confluence of the global and the mythological.
Quote examples
Thabo Mbeki
South African Statesman
We are not being arrogant or complacent when we are said that our country, as a united nation, has never in its entire history, enjoyed such a confluence of encouraging possibilities.
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Paul Davies
British Writer
It will be in the convergence of evolutionary biology, developmental biology and cancer biology that the answer to cancer will lie. Nor will this confluence be a one-way street.
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Timothy Geithner
American Public Servant
Never before in modern times has so much of the world been simultaneously hit by a confluence of economic and financial turmoil such as we are now living through.
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Michael Bolton
American Musician
It's a combination of melody and lyrics, not one without the other. It's a confluence of these different elements that makes something powerful.
Quote examples
Michael Morpurgo
English Author
A notion for a story is for me a confluence of real events, historical perhaps, or from my own memory to create an exciting fusion.
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