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But it also has a certain shapelessness—its many motifs never cohere into a harmonious composition.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

And all the stories in this case — not just Cohen’s but those of other flawed witnesses such as Pecker and Daniels — cohere and ring true.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2024

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

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 22, 2024

The relationship doesn’t cohere dramatically, alas, despite the demonstrative tenderness and commitment that the actors bring to it, and the story’s multiple gaps in logic don’t help.

From New York Times ● Jan. 4, 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

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

The vassals’ argument coheres in an impassioned challenge from Hiromatsu, Toranaga’s oldest and closest friend, who begs him to stop “throwing away all we’ve fought for.”

From New York Times ● Apr. 9, 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

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

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

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

It is the gliadin which confers upon gluten its capacity of cohering to form elastic masses, and of separating readily from associated starch.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" by Various