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powerfully persuasive

It is difficult to decide because both sides offer cogent arguments.

cogent = powerfully persuasive

He makes a cogent argument, but the premises are flawed.
Or does my friend think that by aspersing a witness for the prosecution he will shake the evidence, the abundant and cogent evidence, against his client?
Albert Camus -- The Stranger

cogent = powerfully persuasive

He has dealt profoundly with the disaster that has overwhelmed our native tribal society, and has argued cogently the case of our own complicity in this disaster.
Alan Paton -- Cry, the Beloved Country

cogently = in a logical manner that is powerful and persuasive

McMullen came out of Japan racked by nightmares and so nervous that he was barely able to speak cogently.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken
I'm out of anything that passes for a cogent argument, so I come back with the first thing that pops into my head.
Rick Yancey -- The 5th Wave
There are yet other and more cogent reasons which prevent any great change from being easily effected in the principles of a democratic people.
Alexis de Toqueville -- Democracy In America, Volume 2
But listening to her cogently mapping out what we needed to indict, a tantalizing thought took hold of me.
James Patterson -- 1st to Die
Were the ends of nature so great and cogent, as to exact this immense sacrifice of men?
Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Selected Essays
The more dilapidated the buildings and the filthier the streets, the more cogent were the directions.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Ultimatum
As a defiant statement of poetry's gift for telling truth but telling it slant, this is both cogent and corrective.
Seamus Heaney -- Crediting Poetry
But the last term of the definition is still more cogent, as coupled with the first.
Herman Melville -- Moby Dick
But from the time that a judge has refused to apply any given law in a case, that law loses a portion of its moral cogency.
Alexis de Toqueville -- Democracy In America, Volume 1
Among other illustrations of its truth which might be cited, Scotland will furnish a cogent example.
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers
She looked at Clyde so tensely, so urgently, that he felt quite shaken by the force of the cogency of the request.
Theodore Dreiser -- An American Tragedy
Caesar gave way before such cogent reasoning, and the cardinals were consequently invited to dinner.
Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo
What you say sounds good, and it would be difficult to And any truly cogent objection.
Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
He had a mind that worked in cogent and predictable ways but he brought to his argument a profound integrity, a total commitment to his belief in Pig's guilt.
Pat Conroy -- The Lords of Discipline
I grasped how others came to the matter at hand directly, and who made a set of arguments succinctly and cogently.
Nelson Mandela -- Long Walk to Freedom
Mr. Gradgrind did not seem favourably impressed by these cogent remarks.
Charles Dickens -- Hard Times

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