"coalesced" is an appropriate and commonly used word in written English
You can use it to describe the merging or combining of two or more entities. For example, "The two small companies coalesced to become a larger, more competitive enterprise."
Until now, we've merely been witnessing a soft-shoe shuffle – a debate here, a hi-vis photocall there, Joey Essex everywhere else – that only really coalesced into anything meaningful when the parties unveiled their manifestos this week.
Fury at corruption and nepotism, youth unemployment at 28.7%, low wages and limited job opportunities that force qualified Bulgarians to find work overseas, and a sense that those in power have for too long put their own interests above those of the country, have coalesced this year into one long pulse of anger.
A few kilometres south of Kantipath, in the neighbourhood of Sanepa, a local community of cyclists has coalesced around Base Camp.
A dozen national stereotypes had coalesced in one man.
But they never coalesced.
The handset-makers have coalesced around three "ecosystems": Google's Android, Apple's iOS and, in distant third place, Microsoft's Windows.
Now it is real.Yet even as the Israeli mainstream has coalesced, several large fringe groups are becoming more detached.
Had Labour cut a deal with the Lib Dems, his all-round niceness and lack of tribalism would probably have made him a shoo-in to succeed Mr Brown.In this section A not very odd couple Learning how to share Sprucing up democracy Emerging from the shadow Why Cameron coalesced Good news, for hobbits Finis The love-in ReprintsYet there are doubts.
Many believe the HBS graduate would have won a second-round run-off against Mr Ortega, as anti-Sandinista forces coalesced around his candidacy.Something brewingConcordia University in Montreal is set to begin the construction of a new building to house the John Molson School of Business.
Again, look to Venezuela, where the opposition held a primary this year and coalesced around a single challenger to Mr Chávez.Oh what a circus, oh what a showArgentina's lurch to the left is also a warning to its social-democratic neighbours.
