cogency
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The play echoes this ever-important sentiment but with far less cogency on an American stage.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 15, 2024
Tall, handsome and with a roguish charm, Bo seemed to enjoy the challenge, answering questions with wit and cogency.
From BBC • Oct. 23, 2022
Her book has very little celebration in it, but it is a triumphant document of her refusal to be unseen, her ongoing dedication to cogency.
From New York Times • Mar. 1, 2022
The cogency of her intervention is twofold: its relative rarity, and the fact that Swift is who she is – not Joan Baez getting arrested on a peace march, or Paul Kantner urging “Gotta Revolution!”
From The Guardian • Oct. 13, 2018
This is a consideration the cogency of which was clearly recognized by Darwin, as the following quotations will show.
From Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume 2 Post-Darwinian Questions: Heredity and Utility by Romanes, George John
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