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Recent Examples of incoherence
On the other hand, the administration does seem to revel in this kind of incoherence.
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Norbert Michel, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025
Yet there is an incoherence to many of Trump’s initiatives that would cause midcentury conservatives to blanch.
—Michael Singh, Foreign Affairs, 11 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
The crony character of protectionism becomes obvious when examining the labyrinthine incoherence of U.S. trade policy.
—David B. McGarry, Baltimore Sun, 30 Mar. 2025
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Norbert Michel, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025
Yet there is an incoherence to many of Trump’s initiatives that would cause midcentury conservatives to blanch.
—Michael Singh, Foreign Affairs, 11 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
The crony character of protectionism becomes obvious when examining the labyrinthine incoherence of U.S. trade policy.
—David B. McGarry, Baltimore Sun, 30 Mar. 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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Indeed, rather than leveling the playing field, the plan risks entrenching imbalances in access, ownership, possession and control over the data that powers AI.—
Mohammad Hosseini,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Aug. 2025
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Trump has said that trade imbalances, declining manufacturing power and the cross-border flow of drugs justified the tariffs under IEEPA.—
Jan Wolfe,
USA Today,
4 Aug. 2025
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Of course, this information asymmetry won’t last forever.—
Jay Mehta,
Forbes.com,
4 Aug. 2025
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Policymakers should protect this asymmetry jealously.—
Micah McCartney,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 July 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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In a world of absolute equality, there would be no place left for derangements of disproportion.—
Becca Rothfeld,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Mar. 2024
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Facts are easy to gloss over and dismiss due to cognitive bias or dissonance.—
John Hall,
Forbes.com,
27 July 2025
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And yet, that dissonance stirred again: this was ancestral land, yes, but whose ancestors had labored here, and whose still held the deed?—
Essence,
Essence,
22 July 2025
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During the period of high inflation, price rises were being felt across the board, but tensions still mounted, notably between grocers and manufacturers.—
Andrew Butt,
Forbes.com,
8 Aug. 2025
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Trump’s secondary tariff threats have escalated tensions between Washington and another of its most important trading partners.—
Kevin Liptak,
CNN Money,
7 Aug. 2025
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The children died in June 2023 in what prosecutors described as an eruption of violence motivated by fear of losing them to their father, Nathan John, according to the BBC, who survived the attack.—
Christina Coulter,
People.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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At certain times, such conspiratorial thinking and refusal to accept the evidence will become dangerous—people will spin up fantasies that result in acts of defamation or threats of violence.—
Kaitlyn Tiffany,
The Atlantic,
7 Aug. 2025
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“Incoherence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incoherence. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.
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