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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? (source)cogent = powerfully persuasive
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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. (source)cogently = in a logical manner that is powerful and persuasive
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McMullen came out of Japan racked by nightmares and so nervous that he was barely able to speak cogently.† (source)
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Mr. Barbour's boating stories, never particularly cogent, or focused, or informative about the actual sport, had always vibrated with a majestic urgency all their own, an appealing tingle of disaster.† (source)cogent = powerfully persuasive
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I'm out of anything that passes for a cogent argument, so I come back with the first thing that pops into my head.† (source)
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No answer more cogent than that came to my mind.† (source)
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The more dilapidated the buildings and the filthier the streets, the more cogent were the directions.† (source)cogent = powerfully persuasive
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There was a certain cogency in Trilling's attack, at least with regard to Anderson's inferior work, most of which he wrote after Winesburg, Ohio.† (source)
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But listening to her cogently mapping out what we needed to indict, a tantalizing thought took hold of me.† (source)cogently = in a logical manner that is powerful and persuasive
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Jake wanted to gush forth in some cogent and sensible argument, but brilliance failed him miserably at the moment.† (source)cogent = powerfully persuasive
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As to the mode of composition, it would not be difficult to show that at least the a priori Wolfian arguments against the early use of writing for literary purposes have no longer the cogency which they were once thought to possess.† (source)
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I grasped how others came to the matter at hand directly, and who made a set of arguments succinctly and cogently.† (source)cogently = in a logical manner that is powerful and persuasive
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As a defiant statement of poetry's gift for telling truth but telling it slant, this is both cogent and corrective.† (source)cogent = powerfully persuasive
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During the first part of the day on which the prohibition to leave the town came into force the Prefect's office was besieged by a crowd of applicants advancing pleas of equal cogency but equally impossible to take into consideration.† (source)
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I also believe, instinctively, if not very cogently, in the American political experiment, which I take to be, at bottom, a matter of trusting the citizens to know their own minds and best interests.† (source)cogently = in a logical manner that is powerful and persuasive
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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.† (source)cogent = powerfully persuasive
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