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cohesion

[koh-hee-zhuhn] / koʊˈhi ʒən /
NOUN
union
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Our job, like those of so many arts workers across the country, was to activate creative magic in service of social cohesion and well-being.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

Now, the junta also faces internal threats that challenge the military's cohesion.

From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026

In Jablonec, Rangers were unspeakably awful, devoid of any cohesion, desire, threat, their manager reduced to saying how embarrassed and mortified he was multiple times post-match.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

The internet was rife with what sociologist Ray Oldenburg called “third places,” a space separate from home and work that encouraged social interaction and bred cohesion in communities.

From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026

She wasn’t sure why she felt so strongly about it, but since leaving Rome, the crew had started to lose its cohesion.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

So now there’s Timme and Nembhard, together for two seasons and able to fashion those nuanced cohesions of longtime teammates.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 24, 2022

"Hopefully, we have a good run of health where we can really build something in a short period of time and get a better seed and also more cohesions going into the playoffs."

From Fox News ● Feb. 18, 2022

"We fear that such behaviour threatens to harm social cohesions between Muslim and Jewish communities here in the UK."

From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2021

The divide between the haves and the have-nots is cultural as well as economic, which is of course why extreme economic inequality destroys social cohesions.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 20, 2011

His Providence is in every swinging of the tides, in every circulation of the air, in all attractions and repulsions, in all cohesions and gravitations.

From Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror by Richard Linthicum




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