coalesce

coalesce into (something)

For two or more separate thing to merge or form into one thing. Initially, I wasn't sure if the movie was a drama or comedy, but it coalesced nicely into a dramedy as the plot unfolded.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

coalesce into something

[for two or more things] to blend or fuse and become one thing. The fading colors coalesced into a gray blur. In the distance, the crowd coalesced into a single blob.
See also: coalesce
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • coalesce into
  • coalesce into (something)
  • tell me about it
  • if it looks like a duck and walks like a duck, it is a duck
  • quack
  • have a thing
  • far be it for/from me to...
  • far be it from
  • far be it from (one) to (do something)
  • far be it from one to
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As the deaths mount, the pattern coalesces into something so sinister that it shouldn't be possible.
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In clear language, de Villiers describes how wind forms, what forces affect the movement of air masses, and how air coalesces into vortexes, including tornadoes and hurricanes.
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An army of bubbles coalesces at the center of one, then radoates Out in a scattershor pattern.
Jess von der Ahe: Jay Grimm Gallery. (New York)