Sample Sentences for
coherent
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    She is more coherent now than she was just after the accident an hour ago.
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    There is no coherent government policy, in America or anywhere else in the world.  (source)
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    I was wondering if you could write a eulogy for Hazel. I've got notes and everything, but if you could just make it into a coherent whole or whatever?  (source)
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    He'll be incoherent by the time we reach the Capitol.  (source)
    incoherent = unable to think logically
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in incoherent means not and reverses the meaning of coherent. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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    Now, have I built up any coherent picture of things yet?  (source)
    coherent = clear and sensible
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    "Fire!" she whispered incoherently.  (source)
    incoherently = in an unclear manner (not understandable to others)
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in incoherently means not and reverses the meaning of coherently. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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    He'd try to bring the night into focus, willing coherence, but the effort would only cause distortions.  (source)
    coherence = logical consistency (in what he saw)
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    At the time, there would only be incoherence.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in incoherence means not and reverses the meaning of coherence. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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    It was difficult to think or write coherently.  (source)
    coherently = in a sensible and clear manner
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    I would still be merrily disposed at times; and as my pleasures were (to say the least) undignified, and I was not only well known and highly considered, but growing toward the elderly man, this incoherency of my life was daily growing more unwelcome.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in incoherency means not and reverses the meaning of coherency. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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    By ten o'clock the police organisation, and by midday even the railway organisations, were losing coherency, losing shape and efficiency, guttering, softening, running at last in that swift liquefaction of the social body.†  (source)
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    At these passionate interjections, mere incoherences to the listener as yet unapprised of the antecedents, the Surgeon was profoundly discomposed.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in incoherences means not and reverses the meaning of coherences. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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    After a brief, semicoherent discussion, Gau, Mingma, and Ngima continued down.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "semi-" in semicoherent means half or partially. This is the same pattern you see in words like semicircle, semisweet, and semiautomatic.
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