cohere

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It is therefore important to articulate and maintain a strong vision of peace even if reality doesn't always cohere, and to use that image to help guide us through the rocky times that are sure to ensue along the way.

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  1. intransitive verb To stick or hold together in a mass that resists separation.
  2. intransitive verb To have internal elements or parts logically connected so that aesthetic consistency results: "The movie as a whole failed to cohere” (Robert Brustein).
  3. transitive verb To cause to form a united, orderly, and aesthetically consistent whole.

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  • But soon that hive-mind would cohere, and when it did, the Dree would spread with the same virulence that had allowed the original invaders to overrun vast territories, even whole worlds down The Spray How this information could help, however, was an answer that eluded him. —  Magazine - Fantasy and Science Fiction - [Vol 112] - Issue 03 - March 2007 (v1.0)
  • Scholars had argued that two Locations might temporarily cohere, but three was beyond all speculation. —  Fantasy and Science Fiction - [Vol 111] - Issue 06 - December 2006
  • The Right, on the other hand, wants the state to punish evildoers, to boost the family, to subsidize upright ways of living, to create security against foreign enemies, to make the culture cohere, and to go to war to give ourselves a sense of national identity. —  _Politik
  • The right, on the other hand, wants the state to punish evildoers, to boost the family, to subsidize upright ways of living, to create security against foreign enemies, to make the culture cohere, and to go to war to give ourselves a sense of national identity. —  LewRockwell.com Blog
  • The various elements do not fully cohere, in my view, because the writer and director have a misplaced sense of where the real drama or comedy lies.
 

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  1. Latin cohaerēre : co-, co- + haerēre, to cling.

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  1. Formerly also cohære, from Latin cohærēre, stick together, from co-, together, + hærēre, past participle hæsus, stick, cleave: see hesitate, and cf. adhere, inhere.
 

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