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发音：[ˌkoʊəˈles]
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例句：
- The word coalesce means to come together or merge into a single unit or group. It often describes the process of different things or ideas joining together to form a stronger or more cohesive whole.
- About 300,000 years after their appearance, matter and energy started to coalesce into complex structures, called atoms, which then combined into molecules.
- In the fourth millennium B.C. those local cultures expanded geographically and began to interact, compete with each other, and coalesce.
- In a post-truth world dominated by online conspiracy theories, young people have coalesced around the effort to thumb their nose at, fight and poke fun at misinformation.
- Over time, researchers began to coalesce around the theory that body odor must be a primary culprit in mosquito attraction.
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解释：
- Coalesce这个单词做动词使用，其表示“to come together or merge into a single unit or group”这一含义，即“合并/结合/联合/聚结”等含义，与combine/unite/cooperate/collaborate这些单词构成近义词。
- 具体使用场景如下：
- This model treated the Earth and the Sun as starting as rotating clouds of particles that coalesced under gravity to form molten balls, with the Earth subsequently solidifying and cooling.（该模型将地球和太阳视为开始的旋转粒子云，这些粒子云在重力作用下凝聚形成熔融球，随后地球凝固和冷却。）
—Science - More than 20 years after it first caught mainstream attention and began to destroy everything about how we finance culture, the digital economy is finally beginning to coalesce around a sustainable way of supporting content.（在它首次引起主流关注并开始摧毁我们资助文化的一切 20 多年后，数字经济终于开始围绕支持内容的可持续方式进行整合。）
—Technology - The network became a place where many direct services were coalescing — like shopping and delivering food for neighbors, checking in on the elderly, helping people navigate health care or insurance information.（该网络成为许多直接服务合并的地方 – 例如为邻居购物和提供食物，检查老年人，帮助人们浏览医疗保健或保险信息。）
—Business - They are complex collaborations of line, shape and color in which everything coalesces into a kind of visual equality, to beautiful, and inspiring, effect.（它们是线条、形状和颜色的复杂合作，其中一切都融合成一种视觉上的平等，产生美丽而鼓舞人心的效果。）
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