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cogent

[koh-juhnt] / ˈkoʊ dʒənt /


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Their playing was electric in its immediacy, cogent in conception and executed with meticulous care—the orchestra sounding lush yet transparent, with enviably subtle dynamic shifts.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 14, 2026

For the reporters covering this president, it has, in a word, been impossible to pull a cogent quote from him.

From Salon • Nov. 14, 2025

He’d be hard pressed to find anyone capable of cogent thought who agrees with him.

From Salon • Oct. 17, 2025

Some of this stuff was cogent, a lot of it was tiresome, but ultimately—and this is key—all of it was the result of pressure from the public.

From Slate • Sep. 18, 2025

Variation and natural selection offer cogent explanations of the mechanism by which evolution might occur within a species, but they do not explain the formation of species per se.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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