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  • adjective physics, of radiation Partially coherent

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Examples

  • Schoolchildren were taught this mythology from Gadhafi's Green Book, a semicoherent blend of Koranic interpretation, socialism and pan-Arabism published in 1975.

    Eccentric and Brutal, He Met End as a Fugitive Richard Boudreaux 2011

  • Unfortunately, all of these flashbacks dominate the film in a semicoherent way that Ms. Hamilton could not have intended.

    ' Joe Morgenstern 2010

  • I prayed that I would be able to form at least one semicoherent sentence.

    The Hollow Jessica Verday 2009

  • When I do have some time, and a free computer that's not just crashed AGAIN, I'm usually drooling stupid tired, and being all witty, or even semicoherent about my life is the last thing I want to try and do.

    ana-ng Diary Entry ana-ng 2009

  • I prayed that I would be able to form at least one semicoherent sentence.

    The Hollow Jessica Verday 2009

  • He was semicoherent but stoned, and he told me he had a stash he was ready to quote ‘put on the market’—his words.

    Wake Lisa McMann 2008

  • He was semicoherent but stoned, and he told me he had a stash he was ready to quote ‘put on the market’—his words.

    Wake Lisa McMann 2008

  • He was semicoherent but stoned, and he told me he had a stash he was ready to quote ‘put on the market’—his words.

    Wake Lisa McMann 2008

  • Glassy-eyed, he delivered a few semicoherent remarks at Johns Hopkins University.

    Yeltsin's Challenge 2008

  • He was semicoherent but stoned, and he told me he had a stash he was ready to quote ‘put on the market’—his words.

    Wake Lisa McMann 2008

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