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US
/ˌkoʊəˈɫɛsɪŋ/
]
[ UK /kəʊəlˈɛsɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /kəʊəlˈɛsɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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growing together, fusing
coalescent tradititions
coalescent bones
How To Use coalescing In A Sentence
- It is hugely encouraging that the supporters of this noble programme are coalescing.
- Mr. Boutros-Ghali said IMF members are coalescing around a European plan to "rotate" the heads of the multination constituencies, so that the Europeans take a secondary role. IMF Meeting Fails to Resolve Conflict Over Currencies
- We must build a new, electoral bloc, coalescing the parties and individuals of the left; a coalition that will combine grassroots activism with electoral strategy.
- Sperm whales also produce ambergris, probably from waste coalescing around indigestible substances in the intestinal tract.
- Granuloma annulare is characterized by smooth, skin-colored papules coalescing into annular plaques, and is often found on the hands, feet, wrists, and ankles.
- With the elements of national power coalescing at the tactical level of war, a loose confederation of governmental agencies at the combatant commander level is simply insufficient.
- -- "Of a mouse gray colour, more or less deep and sometimes tinged with tawny, with large dark spots, more or less numerous, oblong on the back and neck and in lines, more or less rounded elsewhere, and broken or coalescing" (but never ocellate: Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
- Mount Mulanje consists of a cluster of coalescing plutonic intrusions of syenite, quartz-syenite and granite, which are uplifted and faulted. South Malawi montane forest-grassland mosaic
- As proponents of checks and balances note, government that allows factiousness can protect the rights and interests of minorities by preventing a large majority from coalescing and dominating a polity.
- Social grievances are now coalescing deep disgust and frustration.