Definition of cohesive
cohesively
adverbcohesiveness
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Examples of cohesive in a Sentence
Their tribe is a small but cohesive group.
Religion can be used as a cohesive social force.
Recent Examples of cohesive from the Web
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It’s also a place with a long history as a cohesive community, despite language and cultural differences.
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Her executives decided to nix the Ivanka Trump Fine Jewelry Collection in March in order to create a more cohesive brand.
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More than a decade and a half after the 9/11 attacks, the U.S., Britain, and their allies have yet to develop a cohesive strategy for how to effectively counter extremism.
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The goals within the next 10 years are to make the interface with the filmmaker more intuitive and easier to use, to bring costs down, and to create a cohesive field out of all these disparate tools.
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COHESIVE Defined for English Language Learners
cohesive
playDefinition of cohesive for English Language Learners
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: closely united
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: causing people to be closely united
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