cogency

Example Sentences

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Fuller, who died last fall, created such an impressive range of Black and white humanity in “A Soldier’s Play” that the work has lost none of its cogency and sting.

From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2023

Tall, handsome and with a roguish charm, Bo seemed to enjoy the challenge, answering questions with wit and cogency.

From BBC • Oct. 23, 2022

Her book has very little celebration in it, but it is a triumphant document of her refusal to be unseen, her ongoing dedication to cogency.

From New York Times • Mar. 1, 2022

The cogency of her intervention is twofold: its relative rarity, and the fact that Swift is who she is – not Joan Baez getting arrested on a peace march, or Paul Kantner urging “Gotta Revolution!”

From The Guardian • Oct. 13, 2018

Invalid, in-val′id, adj. without value, weight, or cogency: having no effect: void: null.—adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various