How to Use cohere in a Sentence

cohere

verb
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Synonyms for coherenext
  • The book is said to take on too much and cohere too little.
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 18 May 2021
  • But, that detail must cohere to be more than the sum of its parts.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 10 Feb. 2013
  • The earth is ceasing to cohere: how to make that coherent?
    — Longreads, 3 May 2024
  • Most of them have to deal with brokenness, chaos, love that never coheres.
    — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 15 Nov. 2018
  • The screenplay may not cohere in ways designed to please the dream-logic-averse, but its wit is neatly matched by the wit of the visual landscapes.
    — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 19 Feb. 2022
  • The items on my r​​ésum​​é did not cohere into a career, or even really seem like jobs.
    — Erin Somers, The Atlantic, 18 Nov. 2022
  • This and more is why the movement to fight anti-Asian violence struggles to cohere.
    — Jerrine Tan, Wired, 19 Mar. 2021
  • Others have their moments, but the moments don’t cohere.
    — Laura Collins-Hughes, New York Times, 26 June 2017
  • Taken as a whole, however, the reading was ill-balanced and failed to cohere.
    — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Bentivegna relished the challenge to cohere the book’s whirlpool of events into the mammoth movie now in theaters.
    — Robert Daniels, Vulture, 26 Nov. 2021
  • What starts as a National song by the end (almost) sounds like Swift’s while still cohering as a proper duet.
    — Ryan Leas, Vulture, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The tight control marshaled by Yankovskaya in the Smetana (and inspired by Shaham in the Tchaikovsky) seemed absent in the evening’s closer, which often struggled to cohere.
    — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 6 Aug. 2022
  • And they must be treated in this way for the rest of the narrative to cohere and for the binary between liberty and tyranny to take shape.
    — Kanishk Tharoor, The New Republic, 22 Feb. 2021
  • Then, too, all the words never managed to cohere into a compelling campaign theme.
    — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 19 Nov. 2020
  • In any event, Acaster packs his jokes into a tricky structure in which ideas cohere through metaphors and digressions.
    — Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2021
  • The result coheres into a pleasing whole piece of theater that never succumbs to the gimmick of its structure.
    — Theodore P. Mahne, NOLA.com, 26 Mar. 2018
  • Once in a while, a certain cognitive fog clears and the obvious finally coheres for the dope who should’ve caught on sooner.
    — Katie Arnold-Ratliff, The Cut, 10 Apr. 2018
  • Some years back, Stewart read a memoir that seemed to magically spew onto the page all that was cohering in her mind.
    — Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Here again the back story is key — the piece, according to the composer’s telling, is assembled out of fragments that had refused to cohere.
    — Joshua Kosman, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 May 2018
  • Some of the essays don’t completely cohere, but even those ones at least contain insights into the writing life.
    — Alice McDermott, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2021
  • Continue mixing with your fingers until the dough is crumbly and starting to cohere.
    — Bill Buford, The New Yorker, 19 Nov. 2020
  • These judgments make no appeal to cohere as part of a larger moral or aesthetic framework.
    — Nathaniel Friedman, The New Republic, 21 Oct. 2019
  • But over the course of the year, Peart settled into his new position, improved his play and became more vocal with his teammates, as the O-line cohered into a strength for the team.
    — Alex Putterman, courant.com, 19 July 2019
  • The series could cohere only if there was unity in how each director understood the project.
    — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 8 Dec. 2021
  • The fonts are clean, the drop shadows are consistent, and everything just coheres really well.
    — Dieter Bohn, The Verge, 26 July 2018
  • The mystery plot doesn't quite manage to cohere, but Smolowik's confidence and pluck make this film an entertaining watch.
    — Danny Horn, EW.com, 4 Jan. 2024
  • All divers must ultimately deal with the fact that molecules along the surface of the water cohere more strongly than those below.
    — Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2021
  • This might seem counterintuitive, but time is necessary to plan and to cohere as a movement.
    — Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 31 May 2022
  • The portrait that has cohered at his trial is of a precious commodity, a man whom others conspire lovingly to shield.
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 10 June 2024
  • After hushed earlier records, Heal was where Strand of Oaks cohered, Showalter dealing with a host of traumatic events via a synth-tinged heartland rock sound that was just starting to come back into vogue in 2014.
    — Ryan Leas, SPIN, 6 June 2024

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