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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

"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

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

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

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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