How to Use coherency in a Sentence

coherency

noun
  • Newt is not one known for contingency and coherency, and that's a problem.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 26 Nov. 2011
  • Human conscious coherency and unity is to a great extent an illusion in any case.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 19 May 2012
  • Lasers, on the other hand, lose coherency over distance, so some loss of energy would be expected.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 24 Oct. 2022
  • As a laser beam travels through tiny droplets of water in fog, ice crystals in snow, and ash from fires, the laser strikes them and rapidly loses coherency.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 19 Mar. 2020
  • Because that's what happens for the rest of the episode, just with a deteriorating level of coherency.
    — Jodi Walker, EW.com, 17 Apr. 2020
  • After the swimmer returns to full coherency, they’re typically moved to a hot shower or hot tub for further rewarming.
    — Jenny McCoy, SELF, 23 Aug. 2018
  • This helps boost coherency between the CPU and GPUs—that is, giving them all the same view of shared data.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 24 June 2022
  • Still, reading Kennedy’s takes on disparate issues across 29 chapters makes the reader wonder whether there is coherency to his positions.
    — Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2021
  • Pushing against this were a diverse array of local Islams, many of which lacked the coherency of the reformists who claimed to be bringing Islam back to its first principles.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 6 Sep. 2010
  • The proportion of migrants need not be the majority, rather, the migrant culture simply needs to have critical mass in terms of coherency to seal itself off from native influence.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 27 June 2011
  • The Associated Press reports, however, there was no coherency to the openings, as some regional governors and shops still decided to stay closed for now.
    — Chronicle Staff, SFChronicle.com, 24 Apr. 2020
  • The 1995 designation from Congress gives a false sense of coherency to a network that developed in fits and starts throughout American history.
    — Dominic Pino, National Review, 13 June 2021
  • Ellison’s work often challenged characterization—and sometimes coherency—even as the author also railed against publishers and media companies that devalued his and others’ contributions.
    — Glenn Fleishman, Fortune, 29 June 2018
  • The only identifiable alternative pathway to achieving some semblance of coherency—making the caucus a partisan affair—would only thin out the caucus’s already thin numbers, weakening its legislative potential.
    — Nick Martin, The New Republic, 2 Nov. 2020
  • Cache coherency greatly simplifies memory management for software developers, improves application performance and enables multi-billion or trillion-parameter AI models.
    — Karl Freund, Forbes, 8 Nov. 2021

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