cohere

Elements of this book that cannot be prized apart also cannot cohere.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 2025

The stories, likewise, are quasiparables, gesturing toward revelations that never quite cohere.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 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

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

Could you say that the life story Madonna promised to tell cohered Monday with any discernible logic?

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 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

Refracted through a camera lens, that struggle cohered into something like magic; in real life, it dissolved into its two combatants.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 28, 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

There are the pupils of the German surrealist Unica Zürn, cohering out of dense, automatic black squiggles.

From New York Times ● Apr. 30, 2022

Calyx bell-shaped, cohering below only with the base of 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