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Recent Examples of cogency Masterpiece remakes offer something very different, speaking to us with surprising urgency and cogency across time. Jim Shepard, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2025 The play echoes this ever-important sentiment but with far less cogency on an American stage. Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2024 European leaders refused to comment on the record about their perceptions of Biden’s cogency. Francesca Chambers, USA TODAY, 12 July 2024 Here, his body of writing, published as well as unpublished, historical as well as contemporaneous, stands out for its cogency, intricacy, and fluency. Fredrik Logevall, Foreign Affairs, 20 Dec. 2022 The emphasis is on technical perfection, formal cogency, and unity of interpretive approach. Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024 Yet, by using Martin’s words to ferry one scene to the next, & Juliet also ends up emphasizing the cogency of his work. Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 5 Dec. 2022 But in her first directorial feature in 15 years, cinematographer Johnes doesn’t organize this material with ideal cogency. Dennis Harvey, Variety, 9 Nov. 2022 But Post evidently finds inspiration in the late rocker’s gloomy cogency. Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker, 9 June 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cogency
Noun
  • Until then, Brazil had gone 17 years without a fatal accident in regular commercial aviation—a figure that reinforces the idea that many of the safety recommendations adopted after the TAM crash had a lasting impact.
    Isadora Wandermurem, Time, 23 Apr. 2025
  • The North Star Award is, NATPE said, for leaders who have had a bar-raising impact.
    Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 23 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • That's led to some questions on the validity of this phenomenon.
    Madeline Mitchell, USA Today, 1 May 2025
  • However, a quick independent analysis of the data now casts doubt on the validity of these findings.
    Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 1 May 2025
Noun
  • The course is all about immersing students into the significance of wine beyond the glass and to view it as an agricultural product that livelihoods rely on; to showcase this, Suckling hones in on the stories and personalities behind some of Tuscany’s iconic vineyards.
    Jillian Dara, Forbes.com, 25 Apr. 2025
  • Its historical and symbolic significance elevates it to a status that defies mere monetary appraisal.
    Ross Rosenfeld, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • On Wednesday, Ukrainian authorities said nine people were killed and at least 30 wounded when a Russian drone struck a bus carrying people to work near the city of Marhanets in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
    Todd Symons, CNN Money, 23 Apr. 2025
  • State troopers learned of the traffic stop at 6 p.m. when they were alerted by New York State Police and the Westchester County Real Time Crime Center that the driver of a black Acura TLX fled from authorities on Interstate 95 North in New York, according to Connecticut State Police.
    Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 23 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • During the earnings call on Tuesday, Musk emphasized the importance of humanoid robots to the company’s future plans.
    Dylan Butts, CNBC, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Covid-19 underscored the importance of diagnostics.
    Jennifer Lotito, Forbes.com, 23 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Fabien Westerhoff will take on the executive role of Managing Director of the theatrical film division bringing together the complementary strengths of both companies, with a strategic market focus on animation, family entertainment, and genre cinema.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 29 Apr. 2025
  • Westerhoff takes an executive role as managing director of the theatrical film division bringing together the strengths of both companies with a strategic market focus on animation, family entertainment, and genre cinema.
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 29 Apr. 2025

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“Cogency.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cogency. Accessed 5 May. 2025.

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