cogent
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Their playing was electric in its immediacy, cogent in conception and executed with meticulous care—the orchestra sounding lush yet transparent, with enviably subtle dynamic shifts.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 14, 2026
The point is not to win a debate by making a cogent case, but to overwhelm opponents and tire them out.
From Salon • Jul. 13, 2025
The raw footage shows she was quoted accurately, although CBS had edited her response by using her most cogent sentence.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2025
Chief Judge Pryor’s majority opinion is so cogent and compelling that it almost makes you believe that courts can fairly apply the hopelessly unworkable “history and tradition” test.
From Slate • Mar. 17, 2025
Variation and natural selection offer cogent explanations of the mechanism by which evolution might occur within a species, but they do not explain the formation of species per se.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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