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{
"cohere":{
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"differ (from)",
"disagree (with)"
],
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": to be logically or aesthetically consistent":[],
": to become united in principles, relationships, or interests":[],
": to cause (parts or components) to cohere":[],
": to display cohesion of plant parts":[],
": to hold together as a mass of parts that cohere":[]
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"the account in his journal coheres with the official report of the battle",
"beset by personal animosities, the people of the neighborhood could not cohere into an effective civic association",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Families cohere by keeping histories and telling stories \u2014 and conveying what the English have called heirlooms. \u2014 New York Times , 17 June 2022",
"The book is a hodgepodge of short, quirky chapters that cohere as a quasi-narrative because Mr. Reilly structures them around his relationship with his father\u2014which wasn\u2019t at all pretty. \u2014 John Paul Newport, WSJ , 27 May 2022",
"Event attendees ask why her narrative strands don\u2019t cohere . \u2014 Katy Waldman, The New Yorker , 1 Apr. 2022",
"With considerable skill, Davies tries to weave these together with various transitional devices \u2014 musical, visual, verbal \u2014 but the sections don\u2019t cohere . \u2014 Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com , 2 June 2022",
"These details don\u2019t quite cohere into a whole, and the sons (Dane DeHaan and Patrick Schwarzenegger), especially, are thinly drawn. \u2014 Washington Post , 5 May 2022",
"During the almost yearlong recording process, this notoriously fractious gang of four were able to put aside their differences, their competitiveness, and cohere better than ever. \u2014 Alan Light, SPIN , 5 Mar. 2022",
"The screenplay may not cohere in ways designed to please the dream-logic-averse, but its wit is neatly matched by the wit of the visual landscapes. \u2014 Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com , 19 Feb. 2022",
"And as long as the rules are not interpreted rigidly, and morality is not understood strictly, rules and morality can cohere . \u2014 Andrew Stark, WSJ , 17 Dec. 2021"
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"1598, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1a":""
},
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"borrowed from Latin cohaer\u0113re \"to stick together, be in contact with, be connected,\" from co- co- + haer\u0113re \"to be closely attached, stick,\" going back to a stem *hais- , of obscure origin":""
},
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"k\u014d-\u02c8hir"
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for cohere stick , adhere , cohere , cling , cleave mean to become closely attached. stick implies attachment by affixing or by being glued together. couldn't get the label to stick adhere is often interchangeable with stick but sometimes implies a growing together. antibodies adhering to a virus cohere suggests a sticking together of parts so that they form a unified mass. eggs will make the mixture cohere cling implies attachment by hanging on with arms or tendrils. clinging to a capsized boat cleave stresses strength of attachment. the wet shirt cleaved to his back",
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"disproportion",
"disunity",
"imbalance",
"incoherence",
"violence"
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": integration of diverse elements, relationships, or values":[
"\"The various parts of this house\u2014discrete in color, in shape, in placement\u2014join together with remarkable coherence .\"",
"\u2014 Paul Goldberger"
],
": systematic or logical connection or consistency":[
"The essay as a whole lacks coherence ."
],
": the property of being coherent":[
"a plan that lacks coherence"
],
": the quality or state of cohering : such as":[]
},
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"the house has been expanded and remodeled so many times that now it's a jumbled mess that lacks coherence",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Achieving coherence while encouraging independent action is a tough balance to strike but one that is well worth it. \u2014 Lars Lehne, Forbes , 9 June 2022",
"What this twisty espionage thriller, the directing debut of Squid Game star Lee Jung-jae, doesn\u2019t have enough of is character depth or storytelling coherence . \u2014 David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter , 19 May 2022",
"During his tenure, the chief justice has built a track record \u2013 though not a flawless one \u2013 of coherence and consensus. \u2014 Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor , 24 May 2022",
"The demand for coherence is the reason stories that seem obscure and implausible in themselves come to feel like common sense even to people who are neither murderous nor crazy. \u2014 Samuel Goldman, The Week , 18 May 2022",
"Under all the fog (and there is a lot of it), there isn\u2019t much substance in this production, which clearly prioritizes an aesthetic and a mood over acting, coherence and Shakespeare\u2019s text. \u2014 Christian Lewis, Variety , 29 Apr. 2022",
"The exhibition gives due respect to both artist and object, uniting them with coherence and sparkle. \u2014 Brian T. Allen, National Review , 19 Mar. 2022",
"Psychologists call these three things coherence , purpose and existential mattering. \u2014 Joshua Hicks, Scientific American , 15 Apr. 2022",
"After all, the obligation to political and ethical coherence stops at the moment love starts. \u2014 Sam Adler-bell, The New Republic , 7 Mar. 2022"
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"circa 1580, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
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"coher(ent) + -ence , after Latin cohaerentia":""
},
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"-\u02c8her-"
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"a coherent passage"
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": logically or aesthetically ordered or integrated : consistent":[
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],
": producing coherent light":[
"a coherent source"
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": relating to or composed of waves having a constant difference in phase":[
"coherent light"
]
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"\u2026 the diaries and the novels demonstrate how a novelist tweaks and grooms reality into something more structured and coherent than life as it is lived. \u2014 Penelope Lively , Atlantic , February 2001",
"He is without a political agenda as he is without a coherent moral sensibility. \u2014 Joyce Carol Oates , Entertainment Weekly , 27 July 1990",
"At times, without my insisting on it, my writings become coherent ; the successive elements that occur to me are clearly related. \u2014 William Stafford , Writing the Australian Crawl , 1978",
"This time the song was old, a pattern of rhythmic monosyllables which had lost coherent meaning somewhere in time. \u2014 Tony Hillerman , The Blessing Way , 1970",
"He proposed the most coherent plan to improve the schools.",
"They are able to function as a coherent group.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In the same vein, many large organizations are understandably struggling to pull together a coherent strategy for ESG reporting due to the complexity of their corporate structures. \u2014 Yec, Forbes , 22 June 2022",
"Developing a coherent American strategy requires understanding why Russia threatens to use nuclear weapons and how the U.S. can recalibrate its strategic logic for a nuclear environment. \u2014 Seth Cropsey, WSJ , 27 Apr. 2022",
"This train of thought offers the only coherent explanation for much of the action and inaction lately on view. \u2014 David Bromwich, Harper's Magazine , 27 Oct. 2020",
"But the New York Post story is the first high-profile instance of the site blocking just one URL without a coherent explanation. \u2014 Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic , 15 Oct. 2020",
"Others said Trump must offer a coherent explanation for a second term and build his base beyond the ardent supporters who have been with him from the beginning. \u2014 John Fritze, USA TODAY , 18 June 2019",
"This was not likely to produce relevant knowledge or coherent policy. \u2014 Peter Bergen, CNN , 28 May 2022",
"Yet even if Scholz's plan succeeds in calming the present crisis, the absence of a coherent overall policy makes another one inevitable. \u2014 Samuel Goldman, The Week , 17 Dec. 2021",
"Jokes aside, there is an urgent need for a coherent national policy not just on the Taiwan issue, but on the larger question of U.S.-China policy. \u2014 James Stavridis, Time , 3 Nov. 2021"
],
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"1557, in the meaning defined at sense 2a":""
},
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"borrowed from Middle French & Latin; Middle French coherent , borrowed from Latin cohaerent-, cohaerens \"touching, adjacent, cohering,\" from present participle of cohaer\u0113re \"to cohere \"":""
},
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"k\u014d-\u02c8hir-\u0259nt"
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"analytical",
"consequent",
"good",
"logical",
"rational",
"reasonable",
"sensible",
"sound",
"valid",
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"well-grounded"
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"a cohort of premedical students",
"the cohort of people born in the 1980s"
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": a group of warriors or soldiers":[],
": band , group":[
"a cohort of supporters"
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": companion , colleague":[
"a few of their \u2026 cohorts decided to form a company",
"\u2014 Burt Hochberg"
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": one of 10 divisions of an ancient Roman legion":[]
},
"examples":[
"The police arrested the gang's leader and his cohorts .",
"Depression was a common problem for people in that age cohort .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"This cohort of creators, who have embraced the Just Chatting category, have emerged as pundits for a generation disconnected from cable news. \u2014 Taylor Lorenz, Washington Post , 26 June 2022",
"The vaccination campaign for another cohort of children \u2014 those ages 5 to 11 \u2014 is lagging behind other groups. \u2014 Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times , 22 June 2022",
"The first cohort of five participants, most of whom joined in the past few weeks, includes Tayo Oyenuga. \u2014 James Rundle, WSJ , 21 June 2022",
"But the indie rock icons were recently up for a fun stunt, as group members Stephen Malkmus and Bob Nastanovich played tennis against comedian/musician Tim Heidecker and his Office Hours Live podcast cohort , DJ Douggpound. \u2014 Jonathan Cohen, SPIN , 14 June 2022",
"Across Italy, there is an entire cohort of companies, some public but most private, in tech, fashion, food, pharmaceuticals, and other sectors committed to running and growing sustainable businesses. \u2014 Cassie Werber, Quartz , 7 June 2022",
"Mike\u2019s cohort , who haven\u2019t had a ton to do in the first part of the season, will likely join up with her and make their way to Hawkins and/or the Upside Down. \u2014 James Grebey, Time , 27 May 2022",
"The damage to Bitcoin and its brethren will be confined to a small cohort of American society\u2014the crypto bulls (maybe not the early-believers, but certainly those who joined the party late). \u2014 Bernhard Warner, Fortune , 20 May 2022",
"Oldfield said the new younger cohort , of 11- to 14-year-olds, will be slightly smaller and focus more specifically on the stages of early adolescence that the pandemic disrupted most potently. \u2014 Seamus Mcavoy, Hartford Courant , 6 May 2022"
],
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2c":""
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"Middle English, from Latin cohort-, cohors \u2014 more at court":""
},
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"\u02c8k\u014d-\u02cch\u022frt",
"\u02c8k\u014d-\u02cch\u022f(\u0259)rt"
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"companion",
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"comrade",
"crony",
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"mate",
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"noun"
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"noun"
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": a rather small Pacific salmon ( Oncorhynchus kisutch ) that has light-colored flesh and is native to both coasts of the North Pacific and is stocked in the Great Lakes":[]
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Lots of splash and flash, all courtesy of coho salmon. \u2014 Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 23 May 2022",
"Currently, Habitat produces four metric tons of coho salmon annually, but scaling the operation could increase that output to 1,000 tons with the right investor. \u2014 Amanda Siebert, Forbes , 27 May 2022",
"Between 2014 and 2018, the confidence interval for one population, the mid-Columbia coho , included the 4% minimum threshold. \u2014 ProPublica , 24 May 2022",
"Juggling offshore salmon fishing seasons with protecting coho salmon in British Columbia and northern Washington and chinook in the Klamath River was dicey enough for the Pacific Fishery Management Council\u2019s spring decision session in Seattle. \u2014 Bill Monroe, oregonlive , 14 Apr. 2022",
"While coho salmon were the second-most abundant species caught in 2019, this year so far there were fewer. \u2014 Joshua Partlow, Anchorage Daily News , 29 Mar. 2022",
"There also remains a relatively robust coho return forecast for the ocean and rivers from the Columbia south along much of the coast. \u2014 Bill Monroe, oregonlive , 25 Feb. 2022",
"The coho catch of nearly 2.3 million is 1.6 million shy of the forecast, and a harvest of 244,000 Chinook salmon is 25,000 below expectations. \u2014 Laine Welch | Fish Factor, Anchorage Daily News , 20 Sep. 2021",
"Just 2 miles east of Camp Taylor, this spot has good access to see spawning coho . \u2014 Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle , 4 Jan. 2022"
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"borrowed from Halkomelem (Salishan language of southwest British Columbia) k\u0313\u02b7\u0259\u0301x\u02b7\u0259\u03b8":""
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"1869, in the meaning defined above":""
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"Ferdinand Julius 1828\u20131898 German botanist":[]
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"The sale of successive rights by one heir to his coheir is not subject to rescission, if the purchaser has run no risk.",
"\u2014 Louisiana Civil Code"
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"Old Mr Vere is dead; and his daughters, who were coheiresses to his estate, are all married \u2026",
"\u2014 Frances Sheridan"
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": an inhabitant of western Pennsylvania or western Virginia":[]
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"Stanley 1922\u20132020 American biochemist":[]
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"definitions":{
": a dayflower ( Commelina longicaulis ) troublesome as a weed especially in Puerto Rico":[]
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"Spanish cojitre":""
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": restrain , restrict":[]
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"-ziv",
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"Their tribe is a small but cohesive group.",
"Religion can be used as a cohesive social force.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"At the time, there were a number of industry experts making waves, like Steven Hassan, Ph.D., author of Combating Cult Mind Control, but Emma and her co-founders wanted to be a cohesive , comforting voice. \u2014 Amanda Garrity, Good Housekeeping , 24 May 2021",
"But while Marvel has dramatically increased its output for Phase Four, releasing 11 Disney+ series and theatrical features in a little less than 18 months, that sense of a larger cohesive narrative woven through each title has been missing. \u2014 Adam B. Vary, Variety , 15 May 2022",
"But while Balkanatolia helps paint a cohesive narrative of the distribution of mammals across Eurasia, many questions remain unanswered. \u2014 NBC News , 26 Feb. 2022",
"But Woodshock works too hard to adopt the poetic wooziness of Terrence Malick and forgets to find a cohesive narrative. \u2014 Matthew Jacobs, Vulture , 2 Dec. 2021",
"Real people transmuted into relatable characters and kneaded into a cohesive narrative. \u2014 Washington Post , 11 Nov. 2021",
"Team members from across business units worked together closely to create a strong, cohesive narrative that was communicated clearly and consistently to our employees and prospective recruits. \u2014 Amit Daniel, Forbes , 26 Oct. 2021",
"Stewart says that the foundation recognizes the church's connection to human trafficking and slave labor and wants to build a cohesive historical narrative for its over 150,000 yearly visitors. \u2014 Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN , 17 Aug. 2021",
"This international adventure on steroids, nitrous and Red Bull doesn't exactly make for the most cohesive narrative, however. \u2014 Brian Truitt, USA TODAY , 22 June 2021"
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"Latin cohaesus , past participle of cohaer\u0113re \"to stick together, cohere \" + -ive":""
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"circa 1731, in the meaning defined above":""
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": a part of the theory of topology in which groups are used to study the properties of topological spaces and which is related in a complementary way to homology theory":[]
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Feynman diagrams can be translated into geometric spaces that are amenable to analysis by cohomology . \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 20 Aug. 2020"
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"circa 1959, in the meaning defined above":""
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"definitions":{
": of or relating to a prehistoric culture which flourished in northwestern Arizona from the 8th to the 11th centuries":[]
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": a director or leader who shares responsibilities with one or more other people":[
"After fourteen years as cohead of Sotheby's American paintings department, Meilman left in 1984 \u2026",
"\u2014 Anne E. Berman"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Dan Rabinow, cohead of CAA\u2019s motion picture literary department, noted that major technology disruptions have happened in the past and artists have always ended up being paid. \u2014 Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times , 16 Aug. 2021",
"In the Foo Camp session, Stanford Law School\u2019s Nate Persily, cohead of Social Science One, said that after 20 months of negotiations, Facebook was finally releasing the data to researchers. \u2014 Steven Levy, Wired , 14 Feb. 2020"
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": a small bronze mortar that was mounted on a wooden block with handles and used for throwing light shells":[]
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"There was a lack of cohesion in the rebel army.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Much is left to your interpretation, yet the strong performances are offset by that lack of narrative cohesion . \u2014 Brian Truitt, USA TODAY , 20 May 2022",
"Warriors head coach Steve Kerr expressed his concerns about the lack of cohesion in team\u2019s second unit in recent weeks. \u2014 C.j. Holmes, San Francisco Chronicle , 5 Mar. 2022",
"Wounded and shell-shocked defenders, joined by an inevitable contingent of malingerers, hide out in the safe areas, eroding unit cohesion . \u2014 Craig Hooper, Forbes , 16 May 2022",
"The Pentagon sees evidence Russian forces are still suffering from low motivation and poor unit cohesion , according to officials. \u2014 Matt Seyler, ABC News , 22 Apr. 2022",
"This same Band of Brothers mythology was long used to lock women out of combat roles, on the grounds that a woman\u2019s presence on the front would dissolve unit cohesion . \u2014 Charlotte Gray, WSJ , 9 Jan. 2022",
"Avoid overuse of the closed session function, which should be used sparingly, because misuse will create distrust in the board and ultimately harm community cohesion . \u2014 Kelly G. Richardson, San Diego Union-Tribune , 10 July 2021",
"The initiative exemplifies a model of redevelopment known as inclusive design that emphasizes public involvement and community cohesion . \u2014 Martin Kuz, The Christian Science Monitor , 19 May 2021",
"Training is being conducted virtually, limiting the team cohesion that is essential to their performance. \u2014 Wes Siler, Outside Online , 29 Apr. 2020"
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"borrowed from New Latin cohaesi\u014dn-, cohaesi\u014d (Medieval Latin, \"proximity contact\"), from Latin cohaes- , variant stem of cohaer\u0113re \"to stick together, cohere \" + -i\u014dn-, -i\u014d -ion":""
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"\u02c8k\u014d-\u02cchan"
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"noun"
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": one of two or more holders of an account, position, document, right, etc.":[
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"the coholders of the patent",
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"\u2014 Jay Jaffe"
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"\u02cck\u014d-\u02c8h\u014dl-d\u0259r"
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"1868, in the meaning defined above":""
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"noun"
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": a tin-white crystalline mineral (Fe,Ni,Co) 3 C consisting of a carbide of iron, nickel, and cobalt and occurring in some meteorites":[]
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"\u02c8k\u014d\u0259\u0307\u02ccn\u012bt"
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"German cohenit , from Emil Cohen \u20201905 German mineralogist + German -it -ite":""
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"type":[
"biographical name"
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"Claude 1933\u2013 French (Algerian-born) physicist":[]
},
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"\u02cck\u014d-en-\u02c8t\u00e4-nu\u0307-j\u0113"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-052113"
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"noun"
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": a ring-shaped protein complex that produces cohesion between sister chromatids and mediates their separation during cell division and that also plays a role in repairing damaged replicated DNA and regulating genetic transcription":[
"At the cell-cycle stage known as anaphase, cohesins are cleaved and cohesion between sister chromatids dissolves, triggering their segregation.",
"\u2014 Paul Megee"
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"-z\u0259n",
"k\u014d-\u02c8h\u0113-s\u0259n"
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"first_known_use":{
"1998, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-172820"
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"type":[
"noun",
"verb, transitive + intransitive"
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": one of two or more people who host something (such as a television show) together":[
"As cohost of the network's late-night wrap-ups of its Winter Olympics coverage, the effervescent Sullivan drew nothing but encomiums \u2026",
"\u2014 Harry F. Waters",
"The one-hour show, airing weekday mornings on ABC, includes a 15-minute discussion among the four co-hosts about that day's \"hot topics\" \u2026",
"\u2014 Josh Young",
"The third annual West Texas Salute to Veterans has been scheduled \u2026 . Co-hosts for the event are Lubbock National Bank and Silent Wings Museum.",
"\u2014 Ray Westbrook"
]
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"(\u02cc)k\u014d-\u02c8h\u014dst"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Last week, on February 16, the Riverdale star joined his wife of 25 years on ABC's daytime TV talk show as a guest cohost . \u2014 Katherine Tinsley, Good Housekeeping , 23 Feb. 2022",
"Listeners phoned in to welcome back the longtime cohost . \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 16 May 2022",
"The former View cohost , 37, shared her thoughts in a tweet after the Tesla and Space X CEO, 50, launched a bid for over $40 billion to purchase the social platform, according to an SEC filing placed Wednesday. \u2014 Stephanie Wenger, PEOPLE.com , 14 Apr. 2022",
"The all-time record still belongs to Ken Jennings, now a Jeopardy cohost , with 74. \u2014 Christian Holub, EW.com , 31 Dec. 2021",
"Miller, cohost of the beloved human-behavior podcast Invisibilia, takes us along for the ride while cheerleading Jordan\u2019s freakish capacity for resilience. \u2014 Erin Berger, Outside Online , 11 May 2020",
"Fans can't get enough of the rapport between Kelly and her cohost Snoop Dogg. \u2014 Katie Bowlby, Country Living , 5 May 2022",
"Now, nearly a year later, the American Idol host has introduced her to his longtime Live cohost . \u2014 Selena Barrientos, Good Housekeeping , 6 Apr. 2022",
"As rumors about Tyra Banks hosting or not hosting Dancing With the Stars in the fall of 2022 continue to swirl, former Mirrorball winner and cohost of the series from 2010-2013 Brooke Burke is sharing her opinions about the whole thing. \u2014 Rebecca Norris, Good Housekeeping , 30 Apr. 2022"
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"first_known_use":{
"1908, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-221524"
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"type":[
"noun"
],
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": any of several North American medicinal or poisonous plants: such as":[],
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},
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"\u02c8k\u014d-\u02cch\u00e4sh"
],
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"A walk through the woods reveals a trail of thick leaf litter, skirted by stands of blue cohosh , wild geraniums, may apple, and royal, cinnamon and sensitive ferns. \u2014 James F. Mccarty, cleveland.com , 6 Aug. 2017"
],
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"Eastern Abenaki kk\u02b7\u1f70has":""
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"1789, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-042017"
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"type":[
"intransitive verb"
],
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": to live or exist together or in company : cohabit":[
"Pairs who cohabitate without marrying report even higher levels of happiness and self-esteem than do those who wed before shacking up \u2026",
"\u2014 Self , June 2012",
"The farm animals cohabitated with grizzly bears, massive elk herds and, more problematically, wolves.",
"\u2014 Kirkus Reviews , 15 Oct. 2013",
"As digital and print continue to cohabitate , specific roles in editorial, marketing, and publicity are becoming less defined and more cross-functional \u2026",
"\u2014 Clare Swanson , Publisher's Weekly , 27 Sept. 2013"
]
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"(\u02cc)k\u014d-\u02c8ha-b\u0259-\u02cct\u0101t"
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"first_known_use":{
"1624, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-061455"
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"noun"
],
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": a woman who is a cohost of something (such as a television show)":[
"It is correct for two or three friends to get together and act as cohostesses for a shower, as when two or three attendants give a joint shower.",
"\u2014 The Hartford Courant",
"Let's go to calls for Kathie Lee Gifford. \u2026 She's also the co-hostess of Miss America.",
"\u2014 Larry King",
"Minnie was an adorably chic dinner co-hostess \u2026",
"\u2014 Sara Gidick"
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"(\u02cc)k\u014d-\u02c8h\u014d-st\u0259s"
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"first_known_use":{
"1906, in the meaning defined above":""
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"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a radio detector in which an imperfectly conducting contact between pieces of conductive material loosely resting against each other is materially improved in conductance by the passage of high-frequency current":[]
},
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"k\u014d-\u02c8hir-\u0259r"
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"cohere + -er entry 2":""
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"1894, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-104703"
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"adjective",
"noun"
],
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": belonging to or constituting a set of verb forms expressing exhortation":[]
},
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"k\u014d\u02c8h\u022f(r)t\u0259tiv"
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"International Scientific Vocabulary cohortat- (from Latin cohortatus ) + -ive ; probably originally formed as German kohortativ":"Noun"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-112956"
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"noun"
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"short for cohabitant":""
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"noun"
],
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"Latin cohortation-, cohortatio , from cohortatus , past participle of cohortari to exhort (from co- + hortari to urge) + -ion-, -io -ion":""
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"buffaloes cohabiting with crossbred cows",
"\u2014 Biol. Abstracts"
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"\u2026 two strains in his philosophy \u2026 cohabit in each of his major works.",
"\u2014 Justus Buchler",
"So riches seemed to provoke their own discomfort, and affluence cohabited with anxiety.",
"\u2014 Simon Schama"
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"(\u02cc)k\u014d-\u02c8ha-b\u0259t",
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"They cohabited in a small apartment in the city.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Bald eagles are no longer hunted and have adapted to cohabit with humans. \u2014 Lilly Price, baltimoresun.com , 28 Feb. 2022",
"Screenwriter Dennis Kelly dramatizes it through the close-quarters friction between a London couple (James McAvoy and Sharon Horgan) who are no longer in love but cohabit for the sake of their school-age child. \u2014 Armond White, National Review , 3 Sep. 2021",
"In recent years the number of cohabiting unmarried couples has risen sharply. \u2014 Vicky Spratt, refinery29.com , 4 May 2020",
"For all the martial metaphors that politicians on both sides of the Atlantic like to invoke, humanity is not so much at war with the virus as uneasily, unwillingly cohabiting with it, with nowhere more hospitable to escape to. \u2014 Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker , 9 May 2020",
"The Pew data show, for instance, that the chief reason cohabiting partners offer for not being married is a lack of financial readiness. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 21 Nov. 2019",
"One big difference: Sometimes that means the residents will be cohabiting with other preppers, not just their immediate family. \u2014 Carolyn Said, SFChronicle.com , 25 Mar. 2020",
"After two years of cohabiting as friends, Mr. Monahan and Ms. Hamel became romantically involved for a year, then broke up. \u2014 Joanne Kaufman, New York Times , 31 Jan. 2020",
"The Pew data show, for instance, that the chief reason cohabiting partners offer for not being married is a lack of financial readiness. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 21 Nov. 2019"
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"Late Latin cohabitare , from Latin co- + habitare to inhabit, from frequentative of hab\u0113re to have \u2014 more at give":""
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"noun"
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"definitions":{
": semi-communal housing consisting of a cluster of private homes and a shared community space (as for cooking or laundry facilities)":[]
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Spevak, who owns Orange Splot, which designs and builds cohousing and other small communities, spoke of the mismatch between houses and resident needs. \u2014 oregonlive , 7 Sep. 2021",
"Despite this affinity and more than a decade of work, the root system of North American Jewish cohousing remains shallow. \u2014 Rachelle Stein-wotten, sun-sentinel.com , 18 Nov. 2020",
"Alissa Ballot, 64, is planning to leave her 750-square-foot apartment in downtown Chicago and put down roots in a multigenerational cohousing community where neighbors typically share dining and recreation areas and often help one another. \u2014 Judith Graham, CNN , 17 Sep. 2020",
"A decade or so ago, the [then-editor of Cookie magazine] discussed her and her in-laws' cohousing arrangement. \u2014 Washington Post , 10 Aug. 2020",
"There is also a growing movement in senior housing known as cohousing , in which homeowners have their own units but share a common living space and other resources. \u2014 Julie Halpert, WSJ , 22 Apr. 2018",
"There\u2019s also senior cohousing , in which older adults choose to live in the same house, same building, or same neighborhood and share expenses and services, such as rides to doctors and home repair. \u2014 Erin Arvedlund, Philly.com , 21 Sep. 2017",
"But for some, identifying those challenges and knowing that others have overcome them is just more incentive to create a cohousing opportunity. \u2014 Jill Sell, cleveland.com , 24 June 2017"
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"1988, in the meaning defined above":""
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": a yellowish semisolid fat obtained from cohune fruits and used in cooking and in soapmaking":[]
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"buffaloes cohabiting with crossbred cows",
"\u2014 Biol. Abstracts"
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"\u2026 two strains in his philosophy \u2026 cohabit in each of his major works.",
"\u2014 Justus Buchler",
"So riches seemed to provoke their own discomfort, and affluence cohabited with anxiety.",
"\u2014 Simon Schama"
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"(\u02cc)k\u014d-\u02c8ha-b\u0259t",
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"They cohabited in a small apartment in the city.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Bald eagles are no longer hunted and have adapted to cohabit with humans. \u2014 Lilly Price, baltimoresun.com , 28 Feb. 2022",
"Screenwriter Dennis Kelly dramatizes it through the close-quarters friction between a London couple (James McAvoy and Sharon Horgan) who are no longer in love but cohabit for the sake of their school-age child. \u2014 Armond White, National Review , 3 Sep. 2021",
"In recent years the number of cohabiting unmarried couples has risen sharply. \u2014 Vicky Spratt, refinery29.com , 4 May 2020",
"For all the martial metaphors that politicians on both sides of the Atlantic like to invoke, humanity is not so much at war with the virus as uneasily, unwillingly cohabiting with it, with nowhere more hospitable to escape to. \u2014 Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker , 9 May 2020",
"The Pew data show, for instance, that the chief reason cohabiting partners offer for not being married is a lack of financial readiness. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 21 Nov. 2019",
"One big difference: Sometimes that means the residents will be cohabiting with other preppers, not just their immediate family. \u2014 Carolyn Said, SFChronicle.com , 25 Mar. 2020",
"After two years of cohabiting as friends, Mr. Monahan and Ms. Hamel became romantically involved for a year, then broke up. \u2014 Joanne Kaufman, New York Times , 31 Jan. 2020",
"The Pew data show, for instance, that the chief reason cohabiting partners offer for not being married is a lack of financial readiness. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 21 Nov. 2019"
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": a commercially important Central and South American pinnate-leaved palm ( Orbignya cohune ) valued especially for the oil and the hard ivory-nutlike shell of its fruit":[]
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": a commercially important Central and South American pinnate-leaved palm ( Orbignya cohune ) valued especially for the oil and the hard ivory-nutlike shell of its fruit":[]
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