/ˌkoʊ.əˈles/ · verb
Latin coalescere — co- (together) + alescere (to grow up)
Olive oil, garlic, tomato, salt — distinct and stubborn at first, then folded by heat into a single thing you cannot unstir.
Strangers in a library, each on their own page. Three weeks later they finish each other's sentences — one mind, with four chairs.
Separate households, separate streets. A shared cause, a shared evening — and suddenly a neighbourhood that was never on any map.
Notes on a napkin, a half-finished spreadsheet, a name muttered in the shower — until they snap into a single thing called a business.
in a sentence
By morning, the loose remarks of a dozen strangers had coalesced into a single, stubborn idea — and nobody could remember whose it was.
Many drops. One unmistakable mass.