Past tense of cohere; stuck together or formed a logical, unified whole.
From cohere + -ed suffix. The past tense form emerged naturally as English regularized verb conjugations in the Middle English period.
When scientists say different ideas 'cohered' into a theory, they're using a physics term metaphorically—it's almost like thoughts have gravity and stick together when they get close enough.
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