cogency
Example Sentences
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The play echoes this ever-important sentiment but with far less cogency on an American stage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2024
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
The cogency of Toland’s arguments was weakened by his manifest love of paradox.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" by Various
