cohere
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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
"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
“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
But the elements never quite cohere in “Freud’s Last Session.”
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 17, 2024
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
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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
This attachment to home-based ritual, as it happens, coheres with Judaism.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 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
Her credibility and salability as a fashion icon coheres around her status as a bold musical visionary.
From Salon ● Feb. 13, 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
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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
But the narrative never cohered, and Cummins couldn’t escape the feeling that she was avoiding the crux of the story.
From New York Times ● Jan. 13, 2020
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
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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
There are the pupils of the German surrealist Unica Zürn, cohering out of dense, automatic black squiggles.
From New York Times ● Apr. 30, 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 Gray, Asa
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