Coherent

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"Coherent" in a Sentence (19 examples)

Our tax system is still without coherent philosophy.

Cultures have a coherent view of the world.

The argument is rigorous and coherent but ultimately unconvincing.

Let me add some words about sentence fusion. A human is given two sentences and asked to produce a single coherent sentence that contains only the important information from the original two. This is a highly constrained summarization task. Investigations — carried out by Hal Daume and Daniel Marcu — has shown "that even at this restricted level, there is no measurable agreement between humans regarding what information should be considered important."

Was Tom coherent?

He is good and coherent.

A text could be coherent but not cohesive, and vice versa.

A coherent text "makes sense".

If the text doesn't make sense, it isn't coherent.

The two sentences are both coherent.

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These people professed that the universe was one coherent thing; but they were not fond of the universe.

A sentence like this one cannot be understood unless somehow we can store the underlined words for several seconds, while we wait for the rest of the sentence to arrive, with the information needed to complete a coherent thought.

Anglia, is part of a wider phenomenon of the seventh century - the development of recognisable, coherent kingdoms from the fragmented tribal society which emerged from the ruins of Roman Britain.

She intimidated me so much that I could hardly get out a coherent sentence in her presence.

At present she is unable to give any coherent account of the past, and the doctors hold out no hopes of the reestablishment of her reason.

Perhaps Khrushchev did have a coherent plan in mind at the time he placed the nuclear missiles in Cuba.

It will dissolve at death with the decay of the body, but it is a perfectly coherent belief that the faithful God will not allow it to be lost but will preserve it in the divine memory.

Presenting a balanced and coherent argument is an important aspect of a nonempirical dissertation and you need to spend some time considering the most useful route through your argument.

The underlying problem with transport policy is that there no coherent strategy. Ministers have tended to encourage greater use of motor vehicles through both transport and (particularly) planning policies, while simultaneously warning of the terrible consequences of unfettered growth of road use.

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