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cohere

[koh-heer] / koʊˈhɪər /




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The stories, likewise, are quasiparables, gesturing toward revelations that never quite cohere.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025

A series of seemingly disconnected stories featuring vivid characters cohere into a brilliant and fractured narrative.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2025

"This has not happened before, with one department, one unit and one person having the responsibility to cohere and to coordinate the system," he added.

From BBC ● Nov. 20, 2024

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

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 22, 2024

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

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

Especially when Mr. Taborn’s chords spill into watery tremolos, all this coheres.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2025

The vassals’ argument coheres in an impassioned challenge from Hiromatsu, Toranaga’s oldest and closest friend, who begs him to stop “throwing away all we’ve fought for.”

From New York Times ● Apr. 9, 2024

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

It was partially thanks to him that the Huntington recently acquired an extensive archive documenting the dome and the postwar UFO community that cohered around its creator, ufologist George Van Tassel.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

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

One notable silver lining of the scourge that swept the world two years ago was the way we cohered.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 22, 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

And at least on opening night, after just 11 days of rehearsal, the technical elements were not yet cohering.

From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2022

Sepals, petals, and stamens numerous in many series, their cohering bases coating the one-celled ovary and forming a cup above it.

From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons




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