as in symmetry
a balanced, pleasing, or suitable arrangement of parts
the house has been expanded and remodeled so many times that now it's a jumbled mess that lacks coherence
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Recent Examples of coherence
What’s beyond dispute is that it has been meticulously designed to harness sound frequencies and equipped with an orchestra of instruments, from singing bowls to a crystal harp, that have been custom-made for tonal coherence.
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Susan D'arcy,
Condé Nast Traveler,
22 June 2026
Curriculum providers and technology companies are beginning to recognize that coherence matters.
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Wyles Daniel,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
9 June 2026
Its lack of coherence, however, will not prevent it from causing staggering damage to the US scientific system.
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ArsTechnica,
29 May 2026
There’s a case that effectiveness comes from coherence rather than scale.
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Rolling Stone Culture Council,
Rolling Stone,
28 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for coherence
Susan D'arcy,
Condé Nast Traveler,
22 June 2026
Curriculum providers and technology companies are beginning to recognize that coherence matters.
—
Wyles Daniel,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
9 June 2026
Its lack of coherence, however, will not prevent it from causing staggering damage to the US scientific system.
—
ArsTechnica,
29 May 2026
There’s a case that effectiveness comes from coherence rather than scale.
—
Rolling Stone Culture Council,
Rolling Stone,
28 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for coherence
Recent Examples of Synonyms for coherence
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When places are being set for dinner, or in a stone garden in a Buddhist monastery, there is no governing principle of central symmetry or proportional order.
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Crittall-style windows and doors the light and provide a pleasing symmetry.
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Bringing that orchestration muscle to Atlas is a meaningful head start.
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Musical supervision and orchestrations are by Martin Koch.
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FactSet tracks the distribution of individual stock ratings; there have not been a higher proportion of Buys back to 2009.
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The art was in selection, proportion and rhythm.
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Studies are increasingly showing a strong correlation between time spent with messages and EHRs and physician burnout rates.
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But there are more forces at play right now, and the prices of oil and gold don’t, in reality, show a very strong correlation.
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Stop seeking harmony and start seeking the truth.
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Soul Coughing bassist Sebastian Steinberg contributes upright bass, Rob Moose supplies string arrangements, Caroline Shaw handles vocal arrangements and harmonies, and Blake Mills, Christian Lee Hutson, Marshall Vore and Nate Walcott all make appearances.
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This unity of purpose is amplified by a newly uniform soundscape.
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The blender, like the writer, is searching for complementarity, for the moment when diversity becomes unity, when differences become harmony.
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“Coherence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coherence. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.
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