confluence

Bachardy’s self-portraits and drawings of Isherwood pepper the galleries, a confluence that reveals something that should be obvious: Two portrait artists, one pictorial and the other literary, resided for decades in the same household.

Trump's tariffs come as the Caribbean is already grappling with a confluence of harsh economic conditions from the cost of cleaning up after frequent natural disasters like hurricanes, to the aftereffects of the Covid pandemic.

A confluence of gentrification and changing social attitudes towards queer people in post-war society fractured the city’s physical queer community north across neighborhoods like Old Town and Lincoln Park.

But I don't think any of us could have predicted the exact confluence of atrocities being committed at warp speed from every direction.

That a family friend survived to make this contribution was the result of an unusual confluence of luck and circumstances.