conflux
Americannoun
plural
confluxesExample Sentences
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An army of 6,000 construction workers is hard at work at a large site overlooking the conflux of the Yangtze and Jialing rivers in the south-western Chinese megacity of Chongqing.
From The Guardian • Jun. 4, 2018
Despite war and dereliction, Afghanistan remains a vibrant conflux of ethnic identities.
From New York Times • Oct. 3, 2011
The squatter camps of Diepsloot may be an unsightly conflux of scabrous shacks, but to the east, on the other side of a busy avenue, lie the rolling hills of the open veldt.
From New York Times • Jun. 2, 2011
This august conflux had for its focus the modest official residence of Premier Baldwin at No. 10 Downing Street.
From Time Magazine Archive
Naevius.—Theophrastus says of them that they are made by a conflux in the earth.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius
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