cohere
verb (used without object)
to stick together; be united; hold fast, as parts of the same mass.
coheres
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present tense formof cohere (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Instead, long stretches of the book read like disparate essays on donnish life, fads and internecine disagreements, strung together in a sequence that never coheres.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
Especially when Mr. Taborn’s chords spill into watery tremolos, all this coheres.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 2026
And at times like these, the federation coheres.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2024
Her credibility and salability as a fashion icon coheres around her status as a bold musical visionary.
From Salon ● Feb. 13, 2023
The discussion of each theme coheres not just because it is localized in a string of consecutive paragraphs but because it refers to the theme using a set of transparently related terms.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
