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Writers employ “coalesce” to evoke the notion of disparate elements gradually merging into a unified whole. In some works, the term illustrates how ambition or conflict, as in political or religious struggles, ultimately comes together to form a single force [1],[2],[3],[4]. In other contexts, it describes physical or biological processes, such as when minute droplets or cellular structures merge to create a larger, coherent form [5],[6],[7],[8]. Authors also use the word in more abstract treatments, suggesting that scattered truths or qualities blend into a harmonious entity, enriching the narrative with a sense of inevitable synthesis [9],[10].
  1. The interest of the State, and the interest of their own ambition, impelled them to coalesce.
    — from Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron
  2. The hundred sects into which Christians are divided, would coalesce; for it is the New Testament which keeps them asunder.
    — from Five Pebbles from the Brook by George Bethune English
  3. They needed only to coalesce, and the Parliament called by Oliver's own writs would be an Anti-Oliverian Parliament.
    — from The Life of John Milton, Volume 5 (of 7), 1654-1660 Narrated in Connexion with the Political, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of His Time by David Masson
  4. I believe that if all the kings of Europe were to coalesce against me I should have a ridiculous paunch."
    — from Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 by Emperor of the French Napoleon I
  5. If the lesions coalesce and form patches of various shapes and sizes, the eruption is called confluent.
    — from A Practical Treatise on Smallpox by George Henry Fox
  6. During the process the granules coalesce, and in this manner form distinct drops of fat.
    — from Anatomy and Embalming A Treatise on the Science and Art of Embalming, the Latest and Most Successful Methods of Treatment and the General Anatomy Relating to this Subject by Albert John Nunnamaker
  7. Embryonic cells send out processes, and so become multipolar; the processes of adjacent cells coalesce.
    — from Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
  8. In the higher animals the two penes coalesce into one .
    — from Elements of Physiophilosophy by Lorenz Oken
  9. Herein moral rigor, forbearance, and gentleness do majestically coalesce.
    — from Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits;A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Clark S. (Clark Smith) Beardslee
  10. The scattered elements of truth cease to contend, and begin to coalesce.
    — from Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays; Vol. 1 With a Memoir and Index by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

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