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as in disruption
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as in incoherence
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Recent Examples of disjointedness
Slow starts, Karl-Anthony Towns’ inconsistent offensive involvement and disjointedness on both ends of the floor have been pain points for this Knicks team all season under new head coach Mike Brown.
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Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 1 Apr. 2026
Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 1 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disjointedness
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Like many independent restaurants, Jon’s navigated a shifting culinary landscape in recent years, from pandemic disruptions to rising costs, all while making incremental changes to stay afloat, including adding beer and wine and participating in the Dana Point Harbor Certified Farmers Market.—
Brock Keeling,
Oc Register,
2 May 2026
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And engineers have learned how to idle wells without lasting damage and restart them quickly, officials say, after years of sanctions and shutdowns pushed the country’s oil industry through cycles of disruption.—
Anthony Di Paola,
Fortune,
2 May 2026
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That mistranslation is most visible in its tonal incoherence.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
30 Apr. 2026
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Granted, there was a lot to criticize in my writing, which was suffering from all sorts of problems, from structural incoherence to insufficient character development to—yes—didactic heavy-handedness that broke the reader’s immersion.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Apr. 2026
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Rowley also says not getting enough sleep is linked with cardiometabolic disorders like diabetes and obesity, as well as cardiovascular problems.—
Pien Huang,
NPR,
2 May 2026
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The genetic disorder affects about 1 in every 3,000 people and causes tumors to grow along nerves throughout the body.—
Wakisha Bailey,
CBS News,
1 May 2026
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The dimness of the shuttle gallery also assists in the immersive fantasy, both as an artistic choice and a practical one due to the shuttle’s sensitivity to light.—
Malia Mendez,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Apr. 2026
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Connectivity has collapsed to roughly two percent of normal levels, leaving over 90 million people in near-total disconnection for more than 1,416 hours.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
4 May 2026
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But the human element came from seeing the singers’ total disconnection from the material.—
Rob Sheffield,
Rolling Stone,
28 Apr. 2026
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As Mars pushes against Jupiter, doing too much creates confusion.—
Tarot.com,
Sun Sentinel,
4 May 2026
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But in the confusion and shock of the shutdown, few travelers appeared to notice, or make use of, the offers.—
Gloria Pazmino,
CNN Money,
2 May 2026
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Esenin-Volpin’s work was a call for a new kind of mathematics that could, in some sense, tolerate vagueness.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
29 Apr. 2026
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And yet the vagueness is part of what makes the song endure.—
Jack Hamilton,
The Atlantic,
28 Apr. 2026
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The administration has signaled that proposals from Tehran have gotten incrementally better as the negotiations have dragged on, but that disorganization of leadership has complicated the process.—
Timothy Nerozzi,
The Washington Examiner,
1 May 2026
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A lot of the case seemed to come down to disorganization and messy paperwork.—
Emma Green,
New Yorker,
17 Apr. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Disjointedness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disjointedness. Accessed 10 May. 2026.
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