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Recent Examples of incompatibility
This often leads to incompatibility between vendors’ equipment, raising integration costs and risking IT and facility lifecycle mismatch.
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Ni Tao, Interesting Engineering, 19 Aug. 2025
In other words, Belly and Jere showcased incompatibilities both big and small this week — and the compromise is definitely not a wedding cake with one layer of raspberry and dark chocolate and one of peaches and milk chocolate.
—Sara Netzley, EW.com, 6 Aug. 2025
After a final confrontation, the women appear to accept their incompatibility, and their friendship becomes something more distant.
—Bekah Waalkes, The Atlantic, 22 July 2025
Couples who last understand that conflict doesn’t mean incompatibility.
—Mark Travers, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025
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Ni Tao, Interesting Engineering, 19 Aug. 2025
In other words, Belly and Jere showcased incompatibilities both big and small this week — and the compromise is definitely not a wedding cake with one layer of raspberry and dark chocolate and one of peaches and milk chocolate.
—Sara Netzley, EW.com, 6 Aug. 2025
After a final confrontation, the women appear to accept their incompatibility, and their friendship becomes something more distant.
—Bekah Waalkes, The Atlantic, 22 July 2025
Couples who last understand that conflict doesn’t mean incompatibility.
—Mark Travers, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for incompatibility
Noun
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Over the past year, patients and caregivers have reported inconsistencies with the G7’s readings—sharp highs when blood sugar is actually stable, or plummeting lows that don’t match fingerstick tests.—
Amanda Castro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 Oct. 2025
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The Challenge Our team started this research in summer 2023, when one of us, a space weather expert, spotted inconsistencies in space weather observations.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
24 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Will the new process lead to scenarios of moral incongruence?—
London School of Economics,
Forbes.com,
4 Sep. 2025
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Puberty blockers, which cause no permanent changes, are used to pause irreversible physical changes while families consider what care is appropriate for a child with gender incongruence.—
Kaitlin McCallum,
Hartford Courant,
24 July 2025
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As the book progresses, some of the children in the photographs are older and more in control of their outward expression, but scraps of strangeness or incongruity always peek through.—
Rachel Monroe,
New Yorker,
25 Oct. 2025
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So the incongruity might be coming from a place of the myth of meritocracy.—
Brian Davids,
HollywoodReporter,
18 Sep. 2025
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And the main driver of the inconsistences seems to be due to contractual obligations and profits.—
Jake Frederico,
The Arizona Republic,
21 Apr. 2023
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Very inconsistent with practices, which led to inconsistence with games.—
Percy Allen,
The Seattle Times,
31 July 2018
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There is plenty of antagonism between ICE agents and anti-ICE protesters.—
Geraldo Cadava,
New Yorker,
16 Oct. 2025
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The entry of taxi-hailing apps Uber and Bolt in Kenya was greeted with antagonism — strikes by traditional taxi operators, protests over pricing by Uber drivers, and even intervention by government agencies.—
Martin K.N Siele,
semafor.com,
3 Oct. 2025
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“Incompatibility.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incompatibility. Accessed 3 Nov. 2025.
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