How to Use cogent in a Sentence

cogent

adjective
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  • The lyrics are too cogent and the melodies too distinct and succinct for that.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 19 Aug. 2021
  • But there are more cogent reasons for why this deal and why now.
    — Dallas News, 10 Mar. 2022
  • Saich is able to give a sweeping and cogent history of it.
    — Ian Johnson, The New York Review of Books, 15 June 2021
  • It’s a field rife with fraud and chicanery and lacking any cogent case for its usefulness.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2022
  • But your overall point is cogent and again gets back to the Tyler Johnson contract.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun-Sentinel.com, 12 June 2017
  • Cooking shows were still grasping for a cogent identity in those days.
    — Mayukh Sen, The Atlantic, 16 Nov. 2021
  • Clear, crisp and cogent writing leads a reader along an uncluttered and vivid path.
    — Gary Gilson, Star Tribune, 6 Feb. 2021
  • For the first time in a decade, the climate crusade is on its heels and desperate for a cogent message and strong leadership.
    — Julie Kelly, National Review, 17 July 2017
  • Which never really seemed like a very cogent argument to me but has become a cliché.
    — Justin Davidson and Alissa Walker, Curbed, 5 Oct. 2021
  • Even the people writing to say I should be fired usually provide a cogent reason.
    — Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2021
  • Klenert was then in her nineties, frail and white-haired, but utterly cogent.
    — Roxana Robinson, The New Yorker, 1 Oct. 2020
  • Each of the participants has laid out a cogent argument for their position.
    — Dean Mobbs, Scientific American, 20 Sep. 2019
  • Adès has written cogent program notes for them, but they weren’t included.
    — Mark Swed, latimes.com, 14 July 2019
  • The journalist’s job, on those occasions, is to pick through the morass, to find the common themes, to try to work out what is most cogent.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2022
  • Villa is a disparate patchwork of talented players, rather than a cogent whole.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2022
  • His book reveals Obama to be a cogent critic of the American effort.
    — Steve Chapman, chicagotribune.com, 25 Nov. 2020
  • At first glance and to financial novices, the articles seemed cogent and informative.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2023
  • The author … makes a cogent and finely nuanced case for the wisdom—indeed, the necessity of this vision.
    — Marian Sandmaier, New York Times Book Review, 8 Feb. 1987
  • Without making too big of a deal about it, this episode delivers a cogent point about using rage as a political weapon.
    — Noel Murray, New York Times, 5 June 2016
  • The analyses and descriptions are consistently cogent and valuable (not always the case in the series).
    — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Apr. 2018
  • Could there be a more cogent statement of aesthetics in a world, now as much as in the Cold War era, built on a foundation of lies?
    — David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2023
  • While each has some cogent arguments on its side, Biden's position is stronger.
    — Damon Linker, The Week, 27 Apr. 2022
  • Their defenses of his actions are unlikely to be cogent or persuasive.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 25 Jan. 2020
  • Sometimes people will argue, hey, that's not really a cogent part of the discussion.
    — Fox News, 24 Aug. 2018
  • The Great Recession is a cogent example of this dynamic.
    — Bobby Yazdani, Fortune, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Mr. Ackman comes across as sincere in his outrage and cogent in his presentations.
    — Ben Kenigsberg, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2017
  • Iñárritu isn’t always the clearest or most cogent thinker, but the power of his images often renders such objections moot.
    — Mark Olsenstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2022
  • The other half of Trump's squad, his legal team, chose not to defend his actions with a cogent explanation for them.
    — Jonathan Allen, NBC News, 22 Jan. 2020
  • These claims by Trump surrogates were not stray statements amid more cogent and truthful arguments.
    — Jamelle Bouie, Slate Magazine, 29 Sep. 2017
  • And in that sense, there is a cogent argument to be made for Kansas staying with adidas, and not just because the other options would come with the same rules risks.
    — Sam Mellinger, kansascity, 19 Apr. 2018

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