coherence

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As if the ugliness of the 120 minutes wasn't enough - the grisly battle, the hair-on-fire panic, the abysmal lack of anything resembling coherence or even competence - there was the disgrace of the post-match.

From BBC • Mar. 8, 2026

"It's a confused mix of ambition and narcissism, unleavened by any effort at intellectual coherence," said Bruce Jones, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.

From Barron's • Feb. 19, 2026

By analyzing these events, they measured "parity coherence exceeding one millisecond," a duration considered highly promising for future operations involving topological qubits based on Majorana modes.

From Science Daily • Feb. 16, 2026

“When these models were stacked together, they maintained coherence over extremely long horizons, allowing for high degrees of complexity,” Robbins said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026

A coherent text is one in which the reader always knows which coherence relation holds between one sentence and the next.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker