cohere
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Theirs is the maddening task of identifying dozens of notable artists sending radically different messages across a range of mediums, and then trying to make the work cohere in a single exhibition.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026
“Fight Night” flirts with a variety of styles — blaxploitation, police procedural, social drama, the buddy-cop movie — which are successful on their own terms but don’t easily cohere.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2024
Beyond the libretto, there are musical challenges to making the piece cohere.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 22, 2024
This will be their first outing together and their only chance to cohere before the knockout pressure comes on.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2023
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
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This coheres with Keynes’s conception of much contemporary economic life as a struggle between creditors and debtors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
The music coheres into one loud, unbroken suite, and yet each track possesses its own character and dynamics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 4, 2026
It all coheres with surprising ease, working on multiple levels at once and playing as something thoughtful, emotional and, most of all, fun.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2025
Yet the installation also coheres around a singular vision — one of autonomy and safety for Black women.
From New York Times ● Aug. 30, 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
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That idea — celebrating men for the good they’re capable of — felt transgressive enough today that it cohered the album for her.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2026
Yellen and Dimon both phoned multiple CEOs over the next few days as the plan cohered.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 16, 2023
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
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
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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
And at least on opening night, after just 11 days of rehearsal, the technical elements were not yet cohering.
From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2022
Styles commonly united or cohering, even when the ovaries are distinct.
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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