It's Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for October 15th.

Today's word is coalesce, spelled C-O-A-L-E-S-C-E.

Co-L-S is a verb. To co-Lalesce is to come together to form one group or mass.

Here's the word used in a sentence from Forbes.

As Angola prepares for the final, the combination of personal perseverance, team cohesion,

and national pride coalesces into something bigger than a game.

A celebration of resilience, dedication,

and the enduring spirit of basketball in Angola.

The meaning of many English words equals the sum of their parts, and coalesce is a fitting example.

The word unites the prefix co, meaning together, and the Latin verb Alescare, meaning to grow.

Coalesce is one of a number of English verbs, along with mix, commingle, merge, and amalgamate,

that refer to the act of combining parts into a whole.

In particular, coalesce usually implies the merging of similar parts to form a

cohesive unit, such as a political ideology, a fan following, or, perish the thought, a Portuguese

man of war, the body of which includes three types of zoids. With your word of the day, I'm

Peter Sakalowski.

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