In this period, diverse groups of people formed political alliances and coalesced into a nation.

As groups of learners coalesce around shared passions online, they experience something that is difficult to replicate in physical space.

A group coalesces around a single goal or issue and agitates for change.

Instead, the various Islamist radical groups have coalesced into the greatest threat to his regime and his life.

If the left fails in the next four years, then groups on the far right, they say, could quickly coalesce to fill the void.

Governments on both sides of the Mediterranean fear that the group is coalescing into a regional terror movement.

This group coalesced around the historical journal Radical America.

The group has been together for several years and has coalesced into a smooth-operating unit.

He has the same people running the show that he had in 2000, and the group has coalesced.

The small groups would split apart and coalesce in new configurations.