coherent story
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcoherentandstory
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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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story
noun[C]
uk/ˈstɔː.ri/us/ˈstɔːr.i/
a description, either true or imagined, of a connected series ...
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(Definition ofcoherentandstoryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofcoherent story
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Thus, it appears that for school-age children there may be a tension between telling acoherentstoryand including specific evaluative comments.
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But it is only by rejecting the possibly left-dislocated examples that we can tell acoherentstoryabout agreement of the separated genitive.
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Overall, the prose passage constituted acoherentstory.
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In that case, the book is more reference material than acoherentstory.
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Many of these were framed in acoherentstorythat described incidents in their lives that were challenging or had caused problems.
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In developing a narrative on ageing, the narrator attempted to establish acoherentstoryand coherent connections among life-events and episodes that had taken place.
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The absence of acoherentstoryline would, of course, call into question any analysis of discourse referencing.
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Putting together the data and analyses presented here we can begin to form acoherentstoryabout how children acquire the semantics of grammatical aspect.
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Yet he does not attempt to weave the rather disparate material into acoherentstory.
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However, there are a few for which a range of research strategies coalesces to provide acoherentstory about specific psychosocial effects, at least at a rather general level.
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Indeed, we do not really get acoherentstorylinking regionalisation, globalisation and the free market paradigm together and in this the book misses an opportunity.
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According to poststructuralist critics, the representation of past events and processes in the form of acoherentstoryturns history into mythology, which is (or serves) conservative ideology.
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They were intent on weaving that material into a singlecoherentstorywhich said as much about their ambitions as about the evidence that was around them.
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Fragments of true memories are combined with the person's past and current knowledge, beliefs, and expectations in order to compose a more or lesscoherentstoryof what probably happened.
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Moral deliberation through imagination works, in part, to develop acoherentstory(or "narrative") that adequately "expresses" the conflicts that characterize the particular problem to be solved.
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There are some important observations on how official inquiries work, noting the tendency to reconstruct events as acoherentstoryand to focus upon individual rather than system failings.
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Whatever may be said in reply to this debate, some of us will continue to press for that full andcoherentstory.
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He may have gone to the solicitor and told him acoherentstory, on which his claim is based.
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The show was deliberately informal and low key, with a morecoherentstoryline than most such comedies and less dancing.
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