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as in corresponded
to be in agreement on every point
the account in his journal coheres with the official report of the battle
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as in cooperated
to form or enter into an association that furthers the interests of its members
beset by personal animosities, the people of the neighborhood could not cohere into an effective civic association
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Recent Examples of cohered
Her ink stains cohered into easily recognizable signs—butterflies, fighter jets, bodies of water, landmasses—that were complicated by text printed atop them.
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Daniel R. Quiles, Artforum, 1 Mar. 2026
This is a wedge issue that Democrats have identified because it is not cohered on the MAGA side.
—CBS News, 28 Dec. 2025
Yet the songs, situated in the melange of Black music, cohered through D’Angelo’s resolve.
—Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 18 Oct. 2025
Daniel R. Quiles, Artforum, 1 Mar. 2026
This is a wedge issue that Democrats have identified because it is not cohered on the MAGA side.
—CBS News, 28 Dec. 2025
Yet the songs, situated in the melange of Black music, cohered through D’Angelo’s resolve.
—Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 18 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cohered
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Ross, who was 7 when Wilkens was arrested, had corresponded with her aunt since elementary school.—
Pamela Colloff,
ProPublica,
24 Mar. 2026
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Courses of fluoroquinolones, which are often prescribed for urinary tract infections and respiratory infections, and flucloxacillin, which is mainly prescribed for Staphylococcus aureus infections, both corresponded to an average of about 20 fewer species.—
Lori Youmshajekian,
Scientific American,
11 Mar. 2026
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The truck driver, a woman who lives in another city, stayed at the scene and cooperated with the investigation, according to police.—
Jason Green,
Mercury News,
18 Mar. 2026
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The driver of the trailer stayed after the crash scene and cooperated with law enforcement, police said.—
Kelsey Brown,
San Antonio Express-News,
15 Mar. 2026
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Aside from royally pissing off hordes of fans (with an average attendance of 25,048 per game, MLB turnstile spins in ’95 were down 20% compared to the league’s pre-strike mark of 31,240), the strike also coincided with a series of media shakeups.—
Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
18 Mar. 2026
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Klein and Solomon coincided as writers on NBC’s Saturday Night Live for 16 years.—
Rosy Cordero,
Deadline,
17 Mar. 2026
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Chase scenes through the jungle and an FBI raid on a clinic providing treatment to the poor are united by the series’s overarching alignment with David against big pharma’s Goliath, an identity that feels as essential to the show as cutie creatures like Marshall’s tortoise Socrates.—
Eric Vilas-Boas,
Vulture,
18 Mar. 2026
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Clint Eastwood and Hackman united decades later for 1992's Unforgiven, and Hackman won another Oscar for playing Little Bill, the black-hat sheriff infused with Popeye DNA.—
Devan Coggan,
Entertainment Weekly,
15 Mar. 2026
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Sharpe said traditionally French cuisine has been looked at as the standard, and chefs have conformed to fit that standard.—
Raisa Habersham,
Miami Herald,
17 Feb. 2026
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Martin highlighted the findings, which mostly conformed to his expectations but still surprised him in the magnitude of the angst over the work situationship.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
11 Feb. 2026
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Looking back at the Chelsea win offers multiple reminders of how well the strikers collaborated with the rest of the team that night.—
Beren Cross,
New York Times,
20 Mar. 2026
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Before her Saturn return, she’s already collaborated with all of those icons, turning in newly definitive performances in their work.—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
20 Mar. 2026
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San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins agreed, saying there was no justice and accountability for wiping out an entire family.—
Da Lin,
CBS News,
21 Mar. 2026
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According to the complaint, CIM and its affiliate agreed in 2021 to provide a loan to the Goodtime developer of up to $164 million, later reduced to $152 million.—
Andres Viglucci,
Miami Herald,
20 Mar. 2026
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His and another breakaway church merged in 2018, and Filaret received the title of honorary patriarch.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
20 Mar. 2026
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Chavez and Huerta co-founded the National Farm Workers Association in the 1960s, which later merged with the United Farm Workers.—
Tim Fang,
CBS News,
19 Mar. 2026
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“Cohered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cohered. Accessed 25 Mar. 2026.
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