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cogent

[koh-juhnt] / ˈkoʊ dʒənt /


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But Mr. Robinson’s cogent point is that a nightmare can take many forms.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

He didn’t really make a clear, cogent argument about why we were going in.

From Slate May 7, 2026

Yet cogent objections to post-’60s permissiveness crop up with some regularity, if you’re looking for them.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 15, 2026

But if that were the case, a cogent narrative could make that point just as well as the facts about Kerr that appear on screen at the end of the film.

From Salon Oct. 4, 2025

Studies have been done, in fact, in which experts in a given field have analyzed such random phenomena and come up with cogent “explanations” for the patterns.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos




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