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cohere

[koh-heer] / koʊˈhɪər /




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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

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

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 14, 2025

If the wishy-washy, parable-making and haywire everything else won’t cohere into true beauty or credible horror, then camp it is.

From New York Times Feb. 22, 2024

But the elements never quite cohere in “Freud’s Last Session.”

From Seattle Times Jan. 17, 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

This attachment to home-based ritual, as it happens, coheres with Judaism.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 11, 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

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

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

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

At times, the group seemed to fall in lock step, cohering around a mechanical Minimalism.

From New York Times Sep. 30, 2022

Styles commonly united or cohering, even when the ovaries are distinct.

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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