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cohesion

[koh-hee-zhuhn] / koʊˈhi ʒən /
NOUN
union
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Our job, like those of so many arts workers across the country, was to activate creative magic in service of social cohesion and well-being.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

"It's a lot of new faces, so it's a challenge to find the right balance, to keep the cohesion in the team," Pocognoli said.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

My bosses thought daily contact with loved ones would help protect my soldiers from mental-health duress or disruptions in unit cohesion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

Now, the junta also faces internal threats that challenge the military's cohesion.

From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026

Group singing played a major role in society, for emotional expression, entertainment, social cohesion, and so forth.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

So now there’s Timme and Nembhard, together for two seasons and able to fashion those nuanced cohesions of longtime teammates.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 24, 2022

"Hopefully, we have a good run of health where we can really build something in a short period of time and get a better seed and also more cohesions going into the playoffs."

From Fox News ● Feb. 18, 2022

"We fear that such behaviour threatens to harm social cohesions between Muslim and Jewish communities here in the UK."

From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2021

The divide between the haves and the have-nots is cultural as well as economic, which is of course why extreme economic inequality destroys social cohesions.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 20, 2011

But his successor Hume, and most empirical psychologists after him, have denied the soul, save as the name for verifiable cohesions in our inner life.

From Pragmatism by William James




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