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cohere

[koh-heer] / koʊˈhɪər /




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Elements of this book that cannot be prized apart also cannot cohere.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 2025

The stories, likewise, are quasiparables, gesturing toward revelations that never quite cohere.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025

"This has not happened before, with one department, one unit and one person having the responsibility to cohere and to coordinate the system," he added.

From BBC ● Nov. 20, 2024

Beyond the libretto, there are musical challenges to making the piece cohere.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 22, 2024

As White scrutinized the data in reports, one plausible story line after another seemed to cohere.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

This coheres with Keynes’s conception of much contemporary economic life as a struggle between creditors and debtors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

This attachment to home-based ritual, as it happens, coheres with Judaism.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025

Her credibility and salability as a fashion icon coheres around her status as a bold musical visionary.

From Salon ● Feb. 13, 2023

But the way “Renaissance” coheres, with its intricate transitions and clever callbacks, is the real wonder to behold; it’s by far the most album-y of the 10 LPs competing for album of the year.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 2, 2023

The discussion of each theme coheres not just because it is localized in a string of consecutive paragraphs but because it refers to the theme using a set of transparently related terms.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

And the more they rehearsed, the more they cohered.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2025

Through him, they met other colorful personalities of the “Cool School” art scene that had cohered in the 1960s around the Ferus Gallery and the scruffy beach neighborhood of Venice.

From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2024

It cohered only by ignoring certain experiences, stories, and viewpoints.

From Salon ● Feb. 17, 2023

This is before modern, post-war feminism has really cohered into a visible movement.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 10, 2022

To produce a scroll, the stalks of the plant were slit open and laid flat in overlapping fashion; when two layers of these were pressed or pounded, the moisture-laden stalks cohered, producing a sheet.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro

I’m running to represent a very diverse district, yes, and the opportunity that it presents is cohering a message that speaks to communities that feel left behind by the Democratic Party.

From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2026

The Lakers started the season 2-10, but they’re 12-6 since the trade deadline with a rapidly cohering roster and the looming return of the NBA’s career scoring leader.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 25, 2023

She wanted to tell the story in reverse chronological order, but it wasn’t cohering.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2022

At times, the group seemed to fall in lock step, cohering around a mechanical Minimalism.

From New York Times ● Sep. 30, 2022

Away to the westward irregular fragments of thundercloud, which seemed incapable of cohering sufficiently to produce a storm, coquetted with the quivering mountain-tops.

From By Veldt and Kopje by W. C. (William Charles) Scully


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