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Recent Examples of incoherence
President Biden’s policy since mid-2022 exhibited a veneer of strength, but its incoherence failed Ukraine and damaged American credibility.
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Kathleen Collins, Twin Cities, 26 Oct. 2025
Head coach Sean Payton acknowledged some aspects of play-call sequencing need to be cleaned up, but pointed more to in-week prep as the root of Denver’s offensive incoherence.
—Luca Evans, Denver Post, 23 Oct. 2025
This kind of incoherence doesn’t just confuse the public.
—Dr. Craig Spencer, Time, 23 Sep. 2025
The emotional ballast of the film — Davidson’s bond with Dottie Achenbach (a wonderful Maxine Peake), the mother of one his childhood friends, who is also fighting her own health battles — also suffers from moments of incoherence, but the immense power of that bond goes a long way.
—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 7 Sep. 2025
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Kathleen Collins, Twin Cities, 26 Oct. 2025
Head coach Sean Payton acknowledged some aspects of play-call sequencing need to be cleaned up, but pointed more to in-week prep as the root of Denver’s offensive incoherence.
—Luca Evans, Denver Post, 23 Oct. 2025
This kind of incoherence doesn’t just confuse the public.
—Dr. Craig Spencer, Time, 23 Sep. 2025
The emotional ballast of the film — Davidson’s bond with Dottie Achenbach (a wonderful Maxine Peake), the mother of one his childhood friends, who is also fighting her own health battles — also suffers from moments of incoherence, but the immense power of that bond goes a long way.
—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 7 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for incoherence
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But the illogic of it all didn’t make her feelings any less real.—
Alex Morris,
Rolling Stone,
19 Mar. 2026
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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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Whether that agreement will rapidly come to fruition on such a tight timeline is looking increasingly difficult – especially amid disunity among House and Senate Democrats.—
Zachary Schermele,
USA Today,
3 Feb. 2026
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One minute, the Earth’s citizens are pursuing their destinies in raucous, competitive disunity.—
Graham Hillard,
The Washington Examiner,
28 Nov. 2025
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But this often requires accepting the fundamental irrationality of the wrapping-up process.—
Joshua Rothman,
New Yorker,
20 Mar. 2026
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The irrationality of politicians suddenly makes sense.—
The Editorial Board,
Oc Register,
24 Feb. 2026
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The world’s imbalance between incoming and outgoing energy is growing ever faster, the UN warned.—
Tom Chivers,
semafor.com,
25 Mar. 2026
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The financial imbalance in the governor’s race is widening.—
Adam Beam,
AJC.com,
24 Mar. 2026
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Studying antimatter can help scientists understand the nature of this asymmetry, but doing so isn’t easy.—
Jacopo Prisco,
CNN Money,
27 Mar. 2026
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This difference might be related to matter-antimatter mass asymmetry.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
23 Mar. 2026
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Manuel also jangles this apparent order with the striking visual trope of disorienting disproportions of scale—figures appearing unexpectedly small or large in the course’s expanses.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
4 Feb. 2026
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Sonon, for example, started out as a cartoonist and uses physical disproportion to express the personalities of characters.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Dec. 2025
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Other passengers described confusion and disorganization within the lines themselves.—
Jared Eggleston,
CBS News,
22 Mar. 2026
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Impulsivity can be seen as bad temper, disorganization as laziness, and difficulty maintaining attention as lack of interest.—
Deldhy Nicolás Moya Sánchez,
The Conversation,
16 Mar. 2026
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On his first album for his own Plastic & Sounds label, the Japanese producer sounds pricklier than ever, lacing hypnotic house and techno with microtonal dissonance and clashing textures.—
Maxie Younger,
Pitchfork,
27 Mar. 2026
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There’s a beguiling dissonance between the hushed voiceover and the images of ships carrying cables and dropping them in the ocean for the internet to reach the island.—
Murtada Elfadl,
Variety,
20 Mar. 2026
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“Incoherence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incoherence. Accessed 31 Mar. 2026.
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