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Recent Examples of incompatible Navigating Silos: Data can come from various disconnected systems with incompatible formats or APIs that don’t play nicely together. Lori Schafer, Forbes.com, 10 June 2025 Other apps listed as incompatible include ABEMA, InkyPen, Niconico, and Nintendo's own Labo VR kit app. James Peckham, PC Magazine, 9 June 2025 If the media environment is fragmented, so, too, is the Democratic resistance itself: split, as Kang wrote in this column, in February, among incompatible strategic impulses; severed from a discredited Party establishment but uncertain where to go next; fundamentally leaderless. Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 9 May 2025 That markup structure is incompatible with the economics of small-scale, high-quality producers. Anthony Zhang, Forbes.com, 3 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for incompatible
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Adjective
  • This has led to several conflicting interests between the for-profit arm and the nonprofit board as the company tries to commercialize its products.
    Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 20 June 2025
  • Unlike city ordinances that may create conflicting regional regulations, statewide standards provide consistency and sustainability that both drivers and platforms need.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 19 June 2025
Adjective
  • This can result in inconsistent model behavior or bloated integrations.
    Adrian Bridgwater, Forbes.com, 20 June 2025
  • Chiefs 2022 second-round pick Skyy Moore has been productive in practices but also needs to regain trust after previous inconsistent play.
    Jesse Newell, Kansas City Star, 19 June 2025

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“Incompatible.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incompatible. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.

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