cogent

In a sentence

Six example sentences with cogent, each labelled with its topic.

• The appeal was short but cogent, and the panel reversed within a week of hearing the argument.

  Law

• Investors passed on the flashy deck and funded the cogent one, whose numbers followed from the previous slide every time.

  Startups

• A cogent objection forced the author to withdraw the paper, since every reader followed the reasoning and reached the same hole.

  Philosophy

• The councilwoman's cogent case for the bike lane, backed by accident figures, won over two members who had opposed it.

  Politics

• The paper offers a cogent explanation for the missing heat, tracing it step by step into the deep ocean.

  Science

• Her cogent argument against the tariff walked the committee from import prices to grocery bills in four clear steps.

  Economics

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More Academic words

• precipitate
• repudiate
• enumerate
• inconstancy
• empiricism
• stabilising
• administrate
• orienting
• inclining
• abstractly
• oscillate
• intermediate