cogency

Example Sentences

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The play echoes this ever-important sentiment but with far less cogency on an American stage.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 15, 2024

Tall, handsome and with a roguish charm, Bo seemed to enjoy the challenge, answering questions with wit and cogency.

From BBC • Oct. 23, 2022

Her book has very little celebration in it, but it is a triumphant document of her refusal to be unseen, her ongoing dedication to cogency.

From New York Times • Mar. 1, 2022

The cogency of her intervention is twofold: its relative rarity, and the fact that Swift is who she is – not Joan Baez getting arrested on a peace march, or Paul Kantner urging “Gotta Revolution!”

From The Guardian • Oct. 13, 2018

M. Soyer, speaking ex cathedrâ from the kitchen of the Reform Club, would find it no easy matter to parry the cogency of this reasoning.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 by Various