cohering
present participle ofcohere
cohere
verb[I]
formaluk/kəʊˈhɪər/us/koʊˈhɪr/If anargumentortheorycoheres, all the differentstagesfittogether toformareasonablewhole.
touniteor toholdtogether as aunit:
Hisvisionis of aworldthat coheres throughhumanconnectionratherthanrules.
Easy to understand
- (as) clear as dayidiom
- accessible
- assimilable
- axiomatic
- brain surgery
- explicitness
- expressly
- fathomable
- graphically
- hang
- hang together
- in words of one syllableidiom
- lucid
- perspicuity
- perspicuous
- pikestaff
- put/set someone straightidiom
- readable
- sharply
- sharpness
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cohering
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
Still,coheringwith our tangled moral intuitions might not be sufficient justification for favouring disjunctivism.
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Managerialism has provided acoheringthread across the range of different organisational forms that have emerged in the remaking of public services.
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Coheringproposals of this sort, drawn up with data from different domains, are significant for the growth of theoretical understanding of languages in contact.
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The result ofcoheringthe law may be expressed in categories that do not correspond to the true moral categories.
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For instance, some truths might realize truth's function by corresponding to reality while others might do so bycoheringwith a larger set of propositions.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The flower calyx is deeply four-parted, very downy, orange brown within, imbricate in bud, persistent,coheringwith the base of the ovary.
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