From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishcoalesceco‧a‧lesce /ˌkəʊəˈles $ ˌkoʊ-/ verb [intransitive] formal UNITEif objects or ideas coalesce, they combine to form one single group SYN fusecoalesce into/with Gradually the different groups of people coalesced into one dominant racial group. —coalescence noun [uncountable]→ See Verb table
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coalesce• The social chapter was always going to be the item over which the opposition forces would coalesce.• His disciples coalesce around him as he lurches towards the inevitable.• So it says something about Bush that the governors were able to coalesce around him.• Once Marxism was a value system then capitalism and free enterprise tried to coalesce as a value system - largely unsuccessfully.• Something could coalesce from the dictates of battlefield skirmishes.• The method acknowledges that there are laws of organisation which ensure that trends coalesce into defined patterns.• Only as these islands coalesce is the full Madelung energy involved, producing the observed increase in adsorption heat with coverage.• A number of special interests are coalescing to protest against the bill.coalesce into/with• A few tried vainly to coalesce into a hardier entity.• He reigned alone in the Frankish heartlands, and prevented filial or factional hostility from coalescing into any major revolt.• The method acknowledges that there are laws of organisation which ensure that trends coalesce into defined patterns.• They frequently coalesce into one another, and with the other primal images of desert and sea.• Along its high white granite walls, hundreds of funeral wreaths were coalescing into one great hanging garden of remembrance.• Thus, the effect of socio-economic factors may coalesce with the effect of biological factors.• The ingredients that were to coalesce into the new music were all there.Origin coalesce (1500-1600) Latin coalescere, from co- ( → CO-) + alescere “to grow” 