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It sounds more like, say, a confluence of circumstances outside of your control.† (source)
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An unnaturally bright object comes into view near the confluence of two smaller streams: Fairbanks bus 142.† (source)
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The trials were to be held at a new stadium on Randall's Island, in the confluence of the East and Harlem rivers.† (source)
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The confluence of race and sex was a powerful force in dismantling Reconstruction after the Civil War, sustaining Jim Crow laws for a century and fueling divisive racial politics throughout the twentieth century.† (source)
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I'm terribly sorry, but due to a confluence of unexpected events, I am not going to be able to keep our appointment today.† (source)
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It was near dark when they reached it, at the crossroads north of the great confluence of the Trident.† (source)
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And did he find the confluence of events—the dead drop and the sudden travel of a trusted lieutenant—a bit too coincidental for comfort?† (source)
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There were large confluent purple patches showing on Anjali's skin.† (source)
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General Dreedle's nurse was only a little chubby, and his senses were stuffed to congestion with the yellow radiance of her hair and the unfelt pressure of her soft short fingers, with the rounded, untasted wealth of her nubile breasts in her Army-pink shirt that was opened wide at the throat and with the rolling, ripened, triangular confluences of her belly and thighs in her tight, slick forest-green gabardine officer's pants.† (source)
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Amid the confluence of crowded structures on the left and descending terraces on the right was James's compound.† (source)
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A confluent small-pox had in all directions flowed over his face, and left it like the complicated ribbed bed of a torrent, when the rushing waters have been dried up.† (source)
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And he came out into a great amphitheater into which jutted huge towering corners of a confluences of intersecting canyons.† (source)
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As the ball rolled into Front Street with Sagamore in close pursuit, the baby-rattle tinkle of the odd bell of the diaper truck dinged persistently, even at the moment of the truck's sudden confluence with Sagamore's unlucky head.† (source)
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The chin is a still larger drop, the confluent dripping of the face.† (source)
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In both crash number one and number three there was a confluence of mechanical problems and mistaken action by the pilot.† (source)
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But as if this vast local power in the tendinous tail were not enough, the whole bulk of the leviathan is knit over with a warp and woof of muscular fibres and filaments, which passing on either side the loins and running down into the flukes, insensibly blend with them, and largely contribute to their might; so that in the tail the confluent measureless force of the whole whale seems concentrated to a point.† (source)
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