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Cohere vs Adhere
When you finish writing a paper, you may feel that it coheres well, since it's sharply focused and all the ideas seem to support each other. When all the soldiers in an army platoon feel like buddies, the platoon has become a cohesive unit. In science class you may learn the difference between cohesion (the tendency of a chemical's molecules to stick together) and adhesion (the tendency of the molecules of two different substances to stick together). Water molecules tend to cohere, so water falls from the sky in drops, not as separate molecules. But water molecules also adhere to molecules of other substances, so raindrops will often cling to the underside of a clothesline for a while before gravity pulls them down.
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Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2024
With either reading, the movie cohered brilliantly, and the question all but evaporated by the time its double-barrelled climax arrived.
—Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 17 June 2024
None of it coheres as either political reflection or narrative.
—Armond White, National Review, 4 Oct. 2024
But none of this has yet cohered into a systematic approach to improving how teams work.
—Angus Dawson
katy George, Harvard Business Review, 1 Sep. 2024
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“Cohere.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cohere. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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