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Meanings of cohere in English

Portuguese
colar
Catalan
adherir

To come or be in close contact with; to stick or hold together and resist separation.

colar
Usage of cohere in English
1
He hopes one day these momentos will cohere into a meaningful whole.
The new yorker
2
Then the music, and the idea behind it, began to cohere:
The bridge: the life and rise of barack obama
3
And magically, the reasons for popular rage always cohere with our own resentments.
The Irish Times
4
But de Vries developed all the parts, and they do cohere.
The Structure of Evolutionary Theory
5
How had the divinity of Christ been able to cohere with his humanity?
A history of god: the 4000-year quest of judaism, christianity, ...
6
Three intertwining narratives cohere easily, with the backdrop of a city in flames.
The Irish Times
7
The means by which they were made to cohere were invisible.
Edgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker
8
When I am eighty, my art may finally begin to cohere.
The last novel
9
This much we know: two such natures could never entirely cohere.
Chopin : the Man and His Music
10
At a distance, they cohere into something like an Ultra Brite cloud mass.
The Guardian
11
Was that one way of making things cohere for you?
The new yorker
12
Statius' episodes do not cohere; how far have they any splendour in their isolation?
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal
13
There is, instead, a babble of voices that does not cohere into one narrative.
The Guardian
14
Carlyle told Emerson that some of his paragraphs didn't cohere.
Essays Before a Sonata
15
Smith's latest doesn't quite cohere like her best work.
Ebony
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But the feeling, ultimately, was that these elements didn't quite cohere to make a masterpiece.
The Guardian
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Translations for cohere
Portuguese
colaraderir
Cohere through the time
Cohere across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common