coherent explanation

collocation in English

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coherent
adjective
uk
/kəʊˈhɪə.rənt/us
/koʊˈhɪr.ənt/
If an argument, set of ideas, or a plan is coherent, it is clear and carefully considered, and each part of it connects or follows in a natural or ...
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explanation
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˌek.spləˈneɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌek.spləˈneɪ.ʃən/
the details or reasons that someone gives to make something clear or easy ...
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Acknowledging the prior operation of group selection provides an evolutionarilycoherentexplanation of the survival of human behavioral predispositions that enable social cooperation.
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In the end, a single theoretical standpoint will be the mostcoherentexplanationof the extant literature, not a concatenation of historical viewpoints.
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Taken together, these assumptions yield acoherentexplanation, to be sure, but no independently compelling evidence is given for any one of them.
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For a logicallycoherentexplanationto be composed, research should start with a theoretical concept grounded in biological reality rather than utopian desire.
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And is it not the chief virtue of a theory that it unifies into acoherentexplanationthe phenomena of which it purports to be an account?
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Continuing along these lines, they contend that the dual processes suggested in the target article are counterproductive and that it would seem that a singlecoherentexplanationis needed.
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It has not had acoherentexplanationwhy there should be one.
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I hope that we have acoherentexplanationof how passporting will work.
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I hope that we may have a little morecoherentexplanationon the point.
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I expected that we should be given acoherentexplanationof the relevant importance of those matters.
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I have not heard acoherentexplanationof what clause 1(3) means or against whom it is to be used.
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Confidence will be re-established only if people receive a proper andcoherentexplanationof exactly what took place.
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I genuinely do not know, but we have never been given acoherentexplanationfor the abolition.
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It is an insult to the workers of the industry that they should push this through without giving anycoherentexplanationwhy they want to do it.
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Defendant presented acoherentexplanationfor the structure of the market and plaintiff did not claim this explanation was pretextual.
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It need not even be true, since a false thoughcoherentexplanationwould be sufficient to show logical compatibility.
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The greatest challenge is to come up with acoherentexplanationof the stripped material.
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A scholar must accept this limitation and accept as true the mostcoherentexplanationfor the available facts.
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Significant differences are found in the relative gland size between males and females in most species, however, nocoherentexplanationhas as yet been found for these results.
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Certainly, some of the most coherent explanations of educational philosophy were presented in writings of the 1960s.
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