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cohere

[koh-heer] / koʊˈhɪər /




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Theirs is the maddening task of identifying dozens of notable artists sending radically different messages across a range of mediums, and then trying to make the work cohere in a single exhibition.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 13, 2026

And all the stories in this case — not just Cohen’s but those of other flawed witnesses such as Pecker and Daniels — cohere and ring true.

From Los Angeles Times May 23, 2024

Beyond the libretto, there are musical challenges to making the piece cohere.

From Seattle Times Feb. 22, 2024

This will be their first outing together and their only chance to cohere before the knockout pressure comes on.

From BBC Oct. 6, 2023

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

Instead, long stretches of the book read like disparate essays on donnish life, fads and internecine disagreements, strung together in a sequence that never coheres.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 30, 2026

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

It’s pretty thin stuff, and it’s indicative of an argument that never really coheres.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 10, 2025

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

And the more they rehearsed, the more they cohered.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 30, 2025

Through him, they met other colorful personalities of the “Cool School” art scene that had cohered in the 1960s around the Ferus Gallery and the scruffy beach neighborhood of Venice.

From New York Times Jan. 12, 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

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

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 closely surrounding the ovary, often slightly cohering with each other; the two lower bearing spurs which project into the spur of the corolla.

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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