cohere
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The adjacency arises from the Virginian’s embrace of those parts of the president’s agenda that cohere with an older American conservatism.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026
"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
“Fight Night” flirts with a variety of styles — blaxploitation, police procedural, social drama, the buddy-cop movie — which are successful on their own terms but don’t easily cohere.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2024
Beyond the libretto, there are musical challenges to making the piece cohere.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 22, 2024
Boyle was desperate to show that polished marble plates would cease to cohere in a vacuum because Galileo had said as much.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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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 attachment to home-based ritual, as it happens, coheres with Judaism.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025
And at times like these, the federation coheres.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2024
But “Misty” excels as an act of self-examination more than it coheres as a piece of narrative theater.
From New York Times ● Mar. 10, 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
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That idea — celebrating men for the good they’re capable of — felt transgressive enough today that it cohered the album for her.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2026
Yellen and Dimon both phoned multiple CEOs over the next few days as the plan cohered.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 16, 2023
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
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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
If there’s any hope of their cohering into a radically new arrangement, they must be refined and expanded through public investment.
From New York Times ● May 27, 2022
Corolla.—Flattened and cordate; of two pairs of petals; the outer larger, saccate at base, and with spreading tips; the inner much narrower, spoon-shaped, their tips cohering and inclosing the anthers and stigma.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons
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