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
But if that were the case, a cogent narrative could make that point just as well as the facts about Kerr that appear on screen at the end of the film.
From Salon • Oct. 4, 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
Studies have been done, in fact, in which experts in a given field have analyzed such random phenomena and come up with cogent “explanations” for the patterns.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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