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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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These include celiac disease, pelvic floor dysfunction, irritable bowel syndrome, hormonal imbalances such as hypothyroidism, metabolic disorders like diabetes, neurological conditions such as Parkinson’s disease or even certain cancers.—
Daryl Austin,
USA Today,
6 Sep. 2025
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What’s frustrating is that while Tom and Robbie’s dance of evasion and investigation gets more predictable, the series’ performances get richer, so Task teeter-totters on an imbalance of story and ensemble.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
5 Sep. 2025
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Today, bilateral trade reflects both the depth and the asymmetry of this partnership.—
HUSSEIN KALOUT,
Foreign Affairs,
2 Sep. 2025
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This creates an asymmetry where investors can price carbon risk but lack comparable, decision-useful metrics for nature.—
Felicia Jackson,
Forbes.com,
1 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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The failure that followed—marked by FEMA's slowness and disorganization—laid bare systemic neglect and inequities, the scars of which still run deep in Louisiana, Mississippi, and beyond.—
Arick Wierson,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Aug. 2025
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When combined, these missteps compound risk, exposing systemic disorganization that makes investors doubt the team’s ability to scale.—
Kirill Gurskiy,
Forbes.com,
21 Aug. 2025
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Even the normally surefire element of a score by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, with its blasts of dissonance pumping up the squirm factor, adds to the heavy-going effect of a movie that seems to go out of its way to be grating.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
29 Aug. 2025
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We The Animals in which family (and cultural) dissonance with a youth’s first homosexual experiences lands him in a psych ward.—
Douglas Unger
August 29,
Literary Hub,
29 Aug. 2025
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“Incoherence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incoherence. Accessed 8 Sep. 2025.
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