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cohere

[koh-heer] / koʊˈhɪər /




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The adjacency arises from the Virginian’s embrace of those parts of the president’s agenda that cohere with an older American conservatism.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 23, 2026

“Fight Night” flirts with a variety of styles — blaxploitation, police procedural, social drama, the buddy-cop movie — which are successful on their own terms but don’t easily cohere.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 5, 2024

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

From Seattle Times Feb. 22, 2024

This will be their first outing together and their only chance to cohere before the knockout pressure comes on.

From BBC Oct. 6, 2023

Boyle was desperate to show that polished marble plates would cease to cohere in a vacuum because Galileo had said as much.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

The music coheres into one loud, unbroken suite, and yet each track possesses its own character and dynamics.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 4, 2026

Especially when Mr. Taborn’s chords spill into watery tremolos, all this coheres.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 27, 2026

It all coheres with surprising ease, working on multiple levels at once and playing as something thoughtful, emotional and, most of all, fun.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 12, 2025

Yet the installation also coheres around a singular vision — one of autonomy and safety for Black women.

From New York Times Aug. 30, 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

Could you say that the life story Madonna promised to tell cohered Monday with any discernible logic?

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 5, 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

One notable silver lining of the scourge that swept the world two years ago was the way we cohered.

From Washington Post Apr. 22, 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

By rights, the whole enterprise should have collapsed, but the two stars, by some fluke, wound up getting along off-screen and cohering on-screen.

From Washington Post Jan. 24, 2023

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

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 12, 2022

Stamens very numerous, in 5 clusters, one cohering with the base of each petal; filaments slender; anthers very short.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray




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