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cohere

[koh-heer] / koʊˈhɪər /




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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

Elements of this book that cannot be prized apart also cannot cohere.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 8, 2025

But the elements never quite cohere in “Freud’s Last Session.”

From Seattle Times Jan. 17, 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

As White scrutinized the data in reports, one plausible story line after another seemed to cohere.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

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

This attachment to home-based ritual, as it happens, coheres with Judaism.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 11, 2025

But “Misty” excels as an act of self-examination more than it coheres as a piece of narrative theater.

From New York Times Mar. 10, 2023

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

But the narrative never cohered, and Cummins couldn’t escape the feeling that she was avoiding the crux of the story.

From New York Times Jan. 13, 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

If there’s any hope of their cohering into a radically new arrangement, they must be refined and expanded through public investment.

From New York Times May 27, 2022

Pistils several or many, separate or cohering in a mass, fleshy or pulpy in fruit.

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 Gray, Asa




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