Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a coherent manner; with due connection or agreement of parts; with logical sequence.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a coherent manner.
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- adverb In a
coherent manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a coherent manner
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Examples
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If I were to win, I would probably jump for joy and otherwise try to express my happiness - I doubt I would be able to speak coherently from the shock and excitement - at winning such a well-known prize.
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Finding a few quiet moments to put together two thoughts much less read, analyze, and write coherently is definitely a challenge many times.
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And thinking coherently is pretty clearly not your strong point.
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¬ Finding a few quiet moments to put together two thoughts much less read, analyze, and write coherently is definitely a challenge many times.
Part-time blogging, the second job — Meandering Passage 2006
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We knew each other, we visited each other, we wrote letters, sent presents, kept up relations; we, in short, coherently joined hands from one generation to another; the fibres of the sons tingled with the current from their fathers, back and back to the old beginnings, to Plymouth and Roanoke and Rip Van Winkle!
Lady Baltimore Owen Wister 1899
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So; of the five House seats subject to special elections - which the dunderhead that created the original rhetoric probably meant, but my opponents’ inability to write coherently is not really my problem - four were held by Democrats and one by a Republican.
Pushback on some pushback rhetoric… - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2010
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Being drunk can be an excuse for acting moronic or vomiting on your friends shoes or not being able to talk coherently, that is all.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Two Teens Kill 7-Year-Old Girl with Supposed Mortal Kombat Moves 2007
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If a blogger has something worthwhile to say and can say it coherently in other words, provides value, then that blogger usually builds readership.
Is a calorie always a calorie? | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2007
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If you cannot manipulate words coherently, meaning will fail.
Archive 2008-11-01 doyle 2008
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If you cannot manipulate words coherently, meaning will fail.
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