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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cohere.

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Examples

  • His drawing style is always a flurry of hatch work that coheres perfectly.

    The Googlemeister Is In Roger Langridge 2009

  • His initial chronicling of biology's five previous revolutions coheres well enough, but the problem Mr. Stewart faced as a writer is that the sixth revolution, his main subject, is just beginning; that overarching storyline has yet to emerge.

    New Angles on Biology Keith Devlin 2011

  • For all its prankish blurring of the lines between author/character and reality/invention, the book finally does present a compelling and complete account of the life of "Michael Martone," an account that really coheres around the other character introduced in that first Contributor's Note, MM's mother, and the city of Fort Wayne.

    Experimental Fiction 2010

  • In light of that a sensible cognitive policy for an individual may be (A) to adopt any new belief we encounter from a prima facie plausible source, so long as it coheres with our present views; but when we encounter a belief that's inconsistent with our present views, (B) to devote cognitive resources to trying to eliminate the troublesome inconsistency, the obvious place to start being the new belief.

    Avoiding Truth, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • His initial chronicling of biology's five previous revolutions coheres well enough, but the problem Mr. Stewart faced as a writer is that the sixth revolution, his main subject, is just beginning; that overarching storyline has yet to emerge.

    New Angles on Biology Keith Devlin 2011

  • Once a viewer is transfixed by "Carlos's" attention to these small details, the sprawling storyline eventually coheres into a possible metaphor: Is the film so long because a sinister world allowed (and aided) Carlos the Jackal, who exploited international disarray to suit his needs, for decades?

    TV Preview: Sundance Channel's 5 1/2-hour biopic 'Carlos' Hank Stuever 2010

  • One mark of a truly great restaurant is that the entire menu coheres.

    Matthew Yglesias » Washington Post Editorial Writers Should Read Their Paper’s Opinion Section 2010

  • The surface detailing coheres around the fuselage in a single, seemingly uncompromised gesture.

    Hyundai Takes a Bold Stand in the Compact Race Dan Neil 2011

  • I do agree about the technical standards of a poem: that it be a self-consistent world that coheres to its own inner logic, that it live on its own fire.

    Five ways to judge a Poem’s Merit 2009

  • Moment to moment, most of the cast is fine but it never coheres into a singular, piercing vision of the desperate straits we are witnessing.

    Michael Giltz: Theater: Wiest and Turturro Lost In "Orchard;" Skip This "Dinner" Michael Giltz 2011

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