How to Use coherent in a Sentence
coherent
adjective- He proposed the most coherent plan to improve the schools.
- They are able to function as a coherent group.
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The songs of each of our eras make up a coherent album.
—Billboard Japan, Billboard, 18 Dec. 2023
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The Celtics are 12-6 since the start of April and have looked like a much more coherent team since the trade deadline.
—BostonGlobe.com, 7 May 2021
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The story at last would be coherent—and closer to the truth.
—Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2021
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Users of the tool claim to be able to write coherent essays and op-eds in seconds.
—Peter Bergen, CNN, 26 Dec. 2022
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It’s all just a lot better and more coherent than the past two years.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes, 5 July 2022
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The great trick is to pull off something that is coherent.
—Nate Sloan, Vulture, 10 May 2024
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There's been a lot of buzz about 5G over the last year—much of it, sadly, none too coherent.
—Jim Salter, Ars Technica, 24 Aug. 2020
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But sometimes the worst thing a movie can be is coherent.
—Darren Franich, EW.com, 3 Dec. 2019
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On which side of the mirror, though, did life make more coherent sense?
—Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 25 July 2024
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David Lynch made one in the ’80s that’s a camp classic but struggles to stay coherent.
—Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 1 Mar. 2024
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The earth is ceasing to cohere: how to make that coherent?
—Longreads, 3 May 2024
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There just aren’t very coherent messages coming out of the city about how to work with it.
—Heather Knight, SFChronicle.com, 13 Dec. 2019
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When the gain of a mode exceeds losses, the light emerges in a coherent beam, and the laser is said to oscillate in that mode.
—Susumu Noda, IEEE Spectrum, 14 Apr. 2024
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Strikingly, there is no coherent plan in the U.S. for any of those three things.
—Andrew Blum, Popular Science, 8 Sep. 2020
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But mostly what the movie needs is a more coherent story.
—Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 25 May 2023
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But in private some were scathing about the lack of a coherent strategy on Iran.
—Anshel Pfeffer, The Atlantic, 27 Mar. 2024
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Haley said video of the encounter showed that Brooks was coherent.
—Austin Mullen, NBC News, 24 Jan. 2023
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In the face of the Taliban advances, there doesn't appear to be a coherent strategy to turn the tide.
—Melanie Zanona, CNN, 13 Aug. 2021
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Maybe not, and maybe no one cares if this jumble of amusing parts makes a coherent whole.
—Katie Walsh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Feb. 2024
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The early aughts marked the death rattle of a coherent zeitgeist.
—Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 27 May 2025
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What’s worse, the White House has failed to mount a coherent campaign to explain the stakes to the American people.
—Steve Forbes, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025
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Others wanted a coherent set of rules to be applied to the millions of people at the border.
—Tim Kane, CNN, 5 Oct. 2022
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Defining any kind of era implies that the era may at some point come to a close and make way for another coherent stretch of time.
—Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2023
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Instead, Nuno’s team put in a performance that seemed to lack a coherent plan.
—Robert Kidd, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2021
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There's no coherent sense of space, and did somebody say Coolio?
—Darren Franich, EW.com, 3 Feb. 2022
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Unifying it all into a coherent form, in life as in art, was the great challenge.
—The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2021
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The challenge for the first five editions is perhaps to be coherent with the size of our event, the type of projects and professionals invited.
—Annika Pham, Variety, 3 June 2025
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Strategy should be clear, coherent and aligned to business goals.
—Patricia Nagy, Forbes.com, 29 May 2025
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