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coherence

[koh-heer-uhns, -her-] / koʊˈhɪər əns, -ˈhɛr- /


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It produces combinations humans haven’t seen before that lack spirit and coherence.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 2, 2026

Supporters hail the move as bringing accountability and coherence — through the governor — to all the departments and agenices involved in education.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 1, 2026

The work was subsequently submitted to reading committees, tasked with checking its syntax and overall coherence.

From Barron's May 4, 2026

By examining how the strength of electronic order at one location relates to that at another, the researchers showed how coherence breaks down across the transition while local amplitude remains present.

From Science Daily Apr. 28, 2026

A coherent text is one in which the reader always knows which coherence relation holds between one sentence and the next.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

They showed that within a crystal jam-packed with rare-earth ions were qubit gems with much longer coherences than would typically be expected in such a dense system.

From Science Daily Jan. 15, 2024

It was during spin echo tests -- a well-established technique to measure coherence times -- that the team noticed funny peaks, corresponding to much longer coherences than those on the single ions.

From Science Daily Jan. 15, 2024

One of the most striking demonstrations of these physics has been in unconventional superconductors, where signatures of enhanced electronic coherences and super-transport have been documented in the resulting non-equilibrium states.

From Science Daily Oct. 12, 2023

Knowledge lags in profound, accurate, honest, subtle and direct language spoken or written which always seems to contradict easy coherences of group whether polite table talk or political party or nation.

From New York Times May 21, 2016

Having thus settled the coherences, we move on with the narrative.

From The Prince of India — Volume 02 by Wallace, Lewis




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