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Recent Examples of incoherence
But the incoherence of current immigration polices has generated widespread distrust and opposition to immigration in the United States.
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Alexander Kustov, Foreign Affairs, 12 Aug. 2025
David Corenswet’s performance shines, but the film suffers from lots of CGI slop and tonal incoherence.
—Paul A. Thompson, Pitchfork, 11 July 2025
Unlike previous legislative efforts that stumbled over partisan divides or technical incoherence, the GENIUS Act passed with bipartisan support.
—Chris Groshong, Forbes.com, 19 June 2025
The historiographical incoherence at the heart of many of the Frick talks persists in more recent efforts to legitimize computer vision’s place in art history by means of lineage.
—Sonja Drimmer, Artforum, 1 Apr. 2025
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Alexander Kustov, Foreign Affairs, 12 Aug. 2025
David Corenswet’s performance shines, but the film suffers from lots of CGI slop and tonal incoherence.
—Paul A. Thompson, Pitchfork, 11 July 2025
Unlike previous legislative efforts that stumbled over partisan divides or technical incoherence, the GENIUS Act passed with bipartisan support.
—Chris Groshong, Forbes.com, 19 June 2025
The historiographical incoherence at the heart of many of the Frick talks persists in more recent efforts to legitimize computer vision’s place in art history by means of lineage.
—Sonja Drimmer, Artforum, 1 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for incoherence
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How responsible a mother can be for her son’s actions remains an open question, but the contortions of her denial, with its euphemisms and its illogic, are closely and relentlessly examined, as is her inability to speak or act to stop him.—
Katie Kitamura,
Harpers Magazine,
16 July 2025
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The circular illogic perfectly encapsulates college football.—
Jon Wilner,
The Mercury News,
25 Feb. 2025
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The disunity within Ukraine comes at a time when Russian forces are escalating large-scale missile and drone strikes in Kyiv and across the country.—
Chris Massaro,
FOXNews.com,
23 July 2025
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This disunity has prevented the EU from using its immense leverage to good effect.—
Josep Borrell Fontelles,
Foreign Affairs,
27 June 2025
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This irrationality, which is especially difficult to model, often boils down to computational constraints.—
John Werner,
Forbes.com,
5 Aug. 2025
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Imagine the imbalance in media money paid for the Dallas Cowboys home package relative to that of the Jacksonville Jaguars or Cincinnati Bengals.—
Eben Novy-Williams,
Sportico.com,
26 Sep. 2025
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According to scholar Nadia Margolis, the key to Christine’s success with her various projects lay in her acute awareness of existing in a men’s world with a dramatically unfair power imbalance.—
Emily Zarevich,
JSTOR Daily,
23 Sep. 2025
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The prospect of a similar asymmetry on the Moon is one reason governments are moving now.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
24 Sep. 2025
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Built in 1890 and set on a half acre in Newton Centre, this home pairs the playful asymmetry and fine millwork of the period with updates that make daily life easy and comfortable.—
Miriam Schwartz,
Boston Herald,
11 Sep. 2025
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Other new books flaunt the virtues of the best jokes: disproportion, meticulous verbal pacing, a knowhow about readerly expectations and the guts to outrun them.—
Christopher Spaide
August 1,
Literary Hub,
1 Aug. 2025
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Between the assassination in Sarajevo, the mass slaughter in the trenches, and the stagnant front lines lie disproportions so immense that cause and effect lose all relation.—
George Packer,
The Atlantic,
5 Feb. 2025
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Sometimes that’s led to disorganization, as the Broncos had to use a timeout midway through the first quarter amid the chaos after a Trautman hold.—
Luca Evans,
Denver Post,
22 Sep. 2025
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Animosity and disorganization will devastate your children.—
Jann Blackstone,
Boston Herald,
21 Sep. 2025
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From Zehetmair’s searching dissonances, the SPCO moved into Brahms’ Double Concerto, performed by concertmaster Steven Copes and principal cello Julie Albers.—
Sheila Regan,
Twin Cities,
13 Sep. 2025
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The stark dissonance between then and now invited McEwan to reexamine the strange, modern phenomenon of mass tourism.—
Jonny Thomson,
Big Think,
10 Sep. 2025
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“Incoherence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incoherence. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.
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