cogency
Example Sentences
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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
History, not rhetoric or cogency, determines whether a dissent wins out in the long run.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 29, 2015
These conclusions are based wholly on scientific reasons, and anyone who understands physics will see the cogency of our statements.
From Health, Happiness, and Longevity Health without medicine: happiness without money: the result, longevity by Louis Philippe McCarty