cohere
verb (used without object)
to stick together; be united; hold fast, as parts of the same mass.
has cohered
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present perfectof cohere (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Yet somehow — through the dark alchemy of tribalism and resentment — this has cohered into something bigger.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 12, 2021
In some instances, the disparity has cohered into specific legal claims.
From The Verge ● Mar. 16, 2021
Thus the British Navy is really national because it is natural; it has cohered out of hundreds of accidental adventures of ships and shipmen before Chaucer's time and after it.
From The Barbarism of Berlin by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
Do you think matter has cohered together from its diffuse float, and the soil is on the surface, and water runs and vegetation sprouts, For you only, and not for him and her?
From Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
It has cohered out of hundreds of accidental adventures of ships and shipmen before Chaucer's time and after it.
From New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index by Various
