Once we'd stirred together the flour, milk, salt, sugar and butter, and inoculated the mixture with yeast, the dough quickly cohered.

WSJ: For Great Eggs Benedict, Make the Muffins From Scratch

What seemed like a hodgepodge eventually cohered into a whole.

NEWYORKER: Testing, Testing

Either they went to Scotland to be taught, or else they learned at their father's workbench, picking up practical scraps that, combined with evening study, cohered into a system of proper knowledge.

ECONOMIST: 18th-century science