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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

As Britpop began to cohere into a recognizable genre and vision, Suede was canonized as its originators, only to be largely eclipsed as bands like Blur and Oasis came to define the movement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2025

"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

Beyond the libretto, there are musical challenges to making the piece cohere.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 22, 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

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

Especially when Mr. Taborn’s chords spill into watery tremolos, all this coheres.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 2026

And at times like these, the federation coheres.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 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

And the more they rehearsed, the more they cohered.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2025

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

But the narrative never cohered, and Cummins couldn’t escape the feeling that she was avoiding the crux of the story.

From New York Times ● Jan. 13, 2020

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

The coaching catastrophes offer a compelling throughline to the otherwise limpingly paced season, cohering the massive ensemble and complementing the show’s know-it-all earnestness with its can-you-believe-this raconteurism.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 8, 2022

Calyx bell-shaped, the tube cohering at the base with the ovary, 5-cleft.

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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