How to Use coherence in a Sentence
coherence
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But zoom out, and coherence emerged.
—Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2025
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The biggest issue feels like a lack of any kind of coherence.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes, 25 July 2022
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That is what short coherence feels like with a deep quantum circuit.
—Paul Smith-Goodson, Forbes, 2 June 2022
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Design plays a central role in that sense of coherence, too.
—John Wogan, Travel + Leisure, 18 Dec. 2025
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Nadella wants a fresh start, with coherence across all product lines.
—Mark Hachman, PCWorld, 29 Mar. 2018
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That lack of coherence is showing.
—Mark Carey, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2026
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This isn't just theming, but coherence.
—Kevin Seo, Forbes.com, 12 Mar. 2026
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But the film looses coherence and urgency on the dark side of the moon.
—Mark Kennedy, Star Tribune, 20 Oct. 2020
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This is coherence — not trend-chasing.
—Jeetendr Sehdev, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
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In a volatile market, the leader who can author coherence is the one who wins.
—Stephanie Dillon, Rolling Stone, 20 Mar. 2026
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That is also why for many of us, these recent mass shootings elude coherence.
—Bianca Mabute-Louie, ELLE, 9 Feb. 2023
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The force of coherence must lead to certainty.
—Elinore Weil, Artforum, 4 Mar. 2026
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But those tweaks are at the expense of coherence and the work’s refined lyricism.
—Peter Marks, Washington Post, 22 July 2022
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Many of the figures on the chart were rounded to provide coherence.
—Luisa Beltran, Fortune, 28 Feb. 2024
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Zabriskie's shriek wraps the pilot on a new level of fear beyond coherence.
—Darren Franich, EW.com, 8 Apr. 2020
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The structure, both stylized and raw, sometimes cries out for a bit more coherence.
—Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2021
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Amid the chaotic present, the past offers escape, a sense of coherence.
—Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2022
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And then after the pandemic starts, there hasn’t been any coherence.
—Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 24 Sep. 2020
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There’s a case that effectiveness comes from coherence rather than scale.
—Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 28 May 2026
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But his talent may be for coherence and a sense of proportion, of playing in space.
—Thomas Beller, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2022
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But coherence isn’t really the point here.
—Jon Dolan, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2025
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Amid lots of energy and sometimes little coherence, here were the highs and lows from the evening.
—Vulture, 12 June 2023
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The party may also face a test of its own internal coherence.
—Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 14 Feb. 2020
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There’s a coherence in it all, because DeLillo laid it all out for me.
—Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Aug. 2022
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But the willful swirl and the withholding of coherence are too extreme here.
—BostonGlobe.com, 2 June 2021
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The circuit made on a sapphire substrate showed a boost in coherence times, but there was still something else.
—Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 17 Dec. 2025
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Design can help bring coherence to the chaos of our hyper-connected world.
—Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 22 Dec. 2017
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To be sure, there is little coherence to the backlash against EVs.
—Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 19 Jan. 2023
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But the coherence time of transmon qubits has proven extremely hard to extend.
—Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 5 Nov. 2025
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But there’s a coherence to the place that’s missing, an absent layer of polish.
—Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 8 June 2025
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