cohere

"This has not happened before, with one department, one unit and one person having the responsibility to cohere and to coordinate the system," he added.

“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.

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

And at times like these, the federation coheres.

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