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Examples of congruous in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Hannah is a sustainability consultant and climate impact manager, which is congruous with an outdoor ethos and the culture around bike guiding. Wendy Altschuler, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2024 On the pool deck, a minimalist railing acts as a congruous border to this backyard retreat. Rachel Silva, ELLE Decor, 24 May 2023 Dripping noses, sneezes, and a stressful mission did not make for congruous relations with Mission Control. Ben Evans, Discover Magazine, 5 Jan. 2023 Studies show that subjects respond more quickly when the word and the image are congruous—that is, if both are pleasant or unpleasant. Yudhijit Bhattacharjee, Discover Magazine, 13 May 2012 Women organize into efficient and congruous guilds. Hillary Kelly, The Atlantic, 16 June 2022 To speak of the Los Angeles riots, therefore, is to speak of dozens of events involving multiple cities and counties, an overlapping but not always congruous set of memories and perspectives that do not neatly map onto one another. New York Times, 28 Apr. 2022 And getting quantum computers to outlearn traditional machines means finding AI problems that boil down to mathematical operations congruous with quantum physics. Quanta Magazine, 4 Feb. 2022 These capabilities may have served those departments well in the moment, but not in a congruous way with other parts of the organization. Omri Kohl, Forbes, 8 Sep. 2021

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“Congruous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/congruous. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.

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