Noam Chomsky

One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson's investment theory of politics, as he calls it - very outstanding political economist - which essentially - I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state.

American Activist

Eula Biss

Fears that formaldehyde from vaccines may cause cancer are similar to fears of mercury and aluminum, in that they coalesce around miniscule amounts of the substance in question, amounts considerably smaller than amounts from other common sources of exposure to the same substance.

American Writer

Jon Lovett

Because the speech is an argument, and a great speech makes an argument well, the act of making that argument is a really important part of how the policy process coalesces and solidifies both for the candidate and also the people serving that candidate.

American Producer

Frederick W. Smith

Leadership is simply the ability of an individual to coalesce the efforts of other individuals toward achieving common goals. It boils down to looking after your people and ensuring that, from top to bottom, everyone feels part of the team.

American Businessman

Tana French

I like writing about big turning points, where professional and personal lives coalesce, where the boundaries are coming down, and you're faced with a set of choices which will change life forever.

Irish Novelist

Jill Hennessy

I've found it easier to write, to coalesce my thoughts, since having children. It brings you back to what you experienced yourself as a child, and you empathize with what your parents went through.

Canadian Actress

Jane Siberry

Music is gathering. Taking our scattered thoughts and senses and coalescing us back into our core. Music is powerful. The first few chords can change us where no self-help books can.

Canadian Musician

Simon Mainwaring

More than ever before, consumers have the ability to unify their voices and coalesce their buying power to influence corporate behaviors.

Businessman

Lee Strobel

The Internet has helped atheists and agnostics coalesce as never before.

American Author

Richard Phillips

American Artist

'Coalesce' can symbolize unity in relationships or ideas, not just physical merging.

Metaphorically Binding

'Coalesce' often implies a gradual process of coming together, not an instant one.

Gradual Process

'Coalesce' doesn't always mean harmony. Parties may coalesce out of necessity or pressure.

Not Always Harmonious

In politics, 'coalesce' suggests unity for a common goal, often in the face of diversity.

Political Unity

Political coalescence may be temporary, dissolving after the goal is reached.

Temporary Alliances

'Coalesce' in social contexts can refer to forming action groups or movements.

Beyond Politics

'Coalesce' is used in academia to describe scientific processes, not just social ones.

Scientific Context

In a physical context, 'coalesce' can refer to a visible transformation from separate to unified.

Visible Change

 —a soup of radiation throughout our universe, that’s a relic from an early Big Bang era. So far, though, we’ve found no such cosmic echo. Some suspect these differing multiverse hypotheses may eventually coalesce into a common description, or be replaced by something else.

What is the universe...

 If the cells are really willing to build towards a specific map, we could take genetically unaltered cells, and what you're seeing here is cells taken out of a frog body. They've coalesced in a way that asks them to re-envision their multicellularity. And what you see here

Michael Levin: The...

 there was a vigorous, scientific debate about when his rings formed. Some astronomers suggested they were nearly as old as the planet itself. More than 4 billion years ago when the planet coalesced out of the disk of gas and dust that surrounded the newborn sun,

The Sacrifice of Cassini...

 the system groups these interruptions together based on how long they can afford to wait. In 2013, interrupt coalescing triggered a massive improvement in laptop battery life. This is because deferring interruptions lets a system check everything at once,

How to manage your time...

 not to engender the fear of science but to bring to light the many possibilities that science has afforded and continues to afford us. We must coalesce as humans to discuss and embrace the solutions not only with caution but also with courage.

How humans could evolve...

 the Earth's land masses gathered together into the single supercontinent Pangaea. As it coalesced, its interior was filled with deserts, while the single coastline eliminated many of the shallow tropical seas

When will the next mass...

 because each of them controlled just a tiny section of the river. And then in a long and complicated process, the tribes coalesced together to form the Chinese nation, which controlled the entire Yellow River

Nationalism vs....

 sideswiped earth in the early solar system sideswiping our crust casting billions of tons of rock into orbit around the earth which then coalesced to form our moon I want I want to be around when that

Traveling Back in Time?...

 I was mindful, too, that life can swing wildly and unpredictably from one year to the next, and that people may experience the same age differently. But even so, as the list coalesced,

Wisdom from great...

 is an incredible thing is enabled humans to coalesce into a network of greater scale than ever before and this is brilliant because it greatly amplifies