I'll post a reference answer later today inside here

【参考译文】CNN的原始报导

 

Based on conversations with dozens of current and former intelligence, military and congressional officials, the view is coalescing among US officials and lawmakers that Israel's failure to predict the Hamas attack from Gaza was primarily due to a lack of imagination.

 

从这段话里学到一个新词：coalesce, 发音?kō??les，意思是合并，合流。