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• v  come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation
  The sushi rice grains cohere
• v  cause to form a united, orderly, and aesthetically consistent whole
  Religion can cohere social groups
• v  have internal elements or parts logically connected so that aesthetic consistency results
  the principles by which societies cohere

• The stories cohere.
• Theres loads of noisy violence and R-rated gore in Hitman, along with the regulation female nudity (via Olga Kurylenko), but these flashy parts never cohere or gather .
• There is less gimmickry in Elizabeth Meriwether's latest comedy, but it still doesn't totally cohere into a satisfying whole.

• cling
• cleave
• adhere
• stick

News & Articles

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• Fundraising effort launched for shared rehearsal space for local musicians
  They've been talking to musicians, scouting locations and running the numbers for months. Now Cohere Bandwidth is looking to raise $5,000 to take its plan to create a low-cost, shared rehearsal space for Fort Collins musicians on a test run.
  Aug. 1, 2013 - The Fort Collins Coloradoan

Quotes

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• Benjamin Netanyahu in Huffington Post (blog)
  It does not cross the minds of these advocates of capitulation,Netanyahu wrote, "that the task of Israel's leaders is to try to convince the American government that it is in the interest of the United States to follow policies that cohere...
• Wen Jiabao in Xinhua
  We are willing to make joint efforts with the US to cohere to the dialogue and consultation mechanism and take each other's concerns into consideration to better achieve mutual benefits,Wen said.
• Margaret MacMillan in Terre Haute Tribune Star
  In her monumental work, "Paris 1919," Margaret MacMillan wrote, "In the Middle East (the men at Versailles) threw together peoples, in Iraq most notably, who still have not managed to cohere into a civil society."