cogent

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Their playing was electric in its immediacy, cogent in conception and executed with meticulous care—the orchestra sounding lush yet transparent, with enviably subtle dynamic shifts.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 14, 2026

Some of this stuff was cogent, a lot of it was tiresome, but ultimately—and this is key—all of it was the result of pressure from the public.

From Slate • Sep. 18, 2025

The point is not to win a debate by making a cogent case, but to overwhelm opponents and tire them out.

From Salon • Jul. 13, 2025

He never responded to the multiple critiques of his false claims about the program with cogent counterarguments.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 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