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a balanced, pleasing, or suitable arrangement of parts
the house has been expanded and remodeled so many times that now it's a jumbled mess that lacks coherence
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Recent Examples of coherence
Willow demonstrated a doubling of memory coherence, another essential step in reducing inherent error rates.
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Karl Freund, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
Plenty of classical musicians have the kind of technical virtuosity that’s simultaneously impressive and glib; expressive virtuosity like Dueñas’s, the ability to guide a piece through a complex emotional landscape without losing narrative coherence — that is infinitely rarer.
—Justin Davidson, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2024
Ensure consistency, accuracy, and coherence; (3) Validation.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
Diamond enables faster charge propagation and better qubit coherence compared to other materials.
—New Atlas, 30 Nov. 2024
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Karl Freund, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
Plenty of classical musicians have the kind of technical virtuosity that’s simultaneously impressive and glib; expressive virtuosity like Dueñas’s, the ability to guide a piece through a complex emotional landscape without losing narrative coherence — that is infinitely rarer.
—Justin Davidson, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2024
Ensure consistency, accuracy, and coherence; (3) Validation.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
Diamond enables faster charge propagation and better qubit coherence compared to other materials.
—New Atlas, 30 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for coherence
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Other ensembles stood out for their symmetry: People wearing complementary diamond-quilt jackets, for example, or twin earmuffs.—
Simbarashe Cha,
New York Times,
22 Jan. 2025
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This beautiful, natural symmetry is typical of Schmitt’s work.—
Nicolas Milon,
Architectural Digest,
21 Jan. 2025
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Once that mystery is solved, the ghost is free to leave the house with a soar of dramatic orchestration.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Jan. 2025
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The creative team includes Tom Pye (production design), Basil Twist (puppetry design and direction), and Will Stuart, who has created new orchestrations of Joe Hisaishi’s original score.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
15 Jan. 2025
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There was also a sportiness seen throughout the collections from leather moto jackets and boots to bombers updated with cropped proportions, as well as hybrid designs and luxe sets seen at Rick Owens and Willy Chavarria.—
Rhonda Richford,
WWD,
27 Jan. 2025
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In Santa Barbara County, known for its wineries, and Merced and Madera counties in the Central Valley, the proportion in each was nearly 10%.—
Jovi Dai,
The Mercury News,
26 Jan. 2025
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Their results show a factor of between three and five improvement in detail and accuracy in the FLI analysis compared to two- and three-point correlation functions.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
28 Jan. 2025
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Porsche was building exquisite lightweight sports cars long before the 917K came along, but the incidence of drivers who drove one in period who then went and bought one later in life is an interesting correlation.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
27 Jan. 2025
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The larger point being made, very much in harmony with Matthew Walker’s theory of human nightly emotional processing, is that our dreams are what Jandial calls thought experiments.—
Adam Gopnik,
The New Yorker,
20 Jan. 2025
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While this may result in short-term harmony, the child will eventually end up sleep-deprived and unable to focus in class.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes,
19 Jan. 2025
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This collective effort, supported by the Producers Branch of the Academy, the PGA, and the Producer Program at the Sundance Institute, also demonstrates the power of unity in our community.—
Harrison Richlin,
IndieWire,
26 Jan. 2025
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But his opening week has done much to dispel the greater fear from Ukraine and its allies that Trump preferred coziness with Putin to NATO’s unity.—
Nick Paton Walsh,
CNN,
24 Jan. 2025
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“Coherence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coherence. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.
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