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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

As Britpop began to cohere into a recognizable genre and vision, Suede was canonized as its originators, only to be largely eclipsed as bands like Blur and Oasis came to define the movement.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 2, 2025

"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

If the wishy-washy, parable-making and haywire everything else won’t cohere into true beauty or credible horror, then camp it is.

From New York Times Feb. 22, 2024

As White scrutinized the data in reports, one plausible story line after another seemed to cohere.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

This coheres with Keynes’s conception of much contemporary economic life as a struggle between creditors and debtors.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 2026

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

For all its geographic separateness, the federation coheres at moments like this.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 29, 2023

But “Misty” excels as an act of self-examination more than it coheres as a piece of narrative theater.

From New York Times Mar. 10, 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

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

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

Calyx bell-shaped, the tube cohering at the base with the ovary, 5-cleft.

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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