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Recent Examples of incompatibility
By the end, though, neutrals departed the London Stadium thinking not of the drama of Salah on the bench or of Wirtz’s alleged incompatibility with his new environment, but of what Wirtz can bring to Liverpool.
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Michael Walker, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2025
Today, Google is fixing incompatibility issues with AirDrop. iPhone owners have been able to easily share files, contacts, photos, and anything else through Apple's wireless sharing system, provided both parties have an iPhone, iPad, or Mac.
—Julian Chokkattu, Wired News, 20 Nov. 2025
Red flags warn of potential harm or incompatibility.
—Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
This often leads to incompatibility between vendors’ equipment, raising integration costs and risking IT and facility lifecycle mismatch.
—Ni Tao, Interesting Engineering, 19 Aug. 2025
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Michael Walker, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2025
Today, Google is fixing incompatibility issues with AirDrop. iPhone owners have been able to easily share files, contacts, photos, and anything else through Apple's wireless sharing system, provided both parties have an iPhone, iPad, or Mac.
—Julian Chokkattu, Wired News, 20 Nov. 2025
Red flags warn of potential harm or incompatibility.
—Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
This often leads to incompatibility between vendors’ equipment, raising integration costs and risking IT and facility lifecycle mismatch.
—Ni Tao, Interesting Engineering, 19 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for incompatibility
Recent Examples of Synonyms for incompatibility
Noun
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Irregular sleep, artificial light at night, and jet lag create internal inconsistencies.—
Julian Hayes II,
Forbes.com,
24 Jan. 2026
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That inconsistency limits part quality and design flexibility.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
22 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Teachers and school staff have a federal constitutional right to accurately inform the parent or guardian of their student when the student expresses gender incongruence.—
Howard Blume,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Jan. 2026
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Health Minister Simeon Brown said doctors would no longer be able to prescribe gonadotropin-releasing hormone analogues for gender dysphoria or incongruence to those seeking treatment for the conditions and not already on the drugs.—
Reuters,
NBC news,
20 Nov. 2025
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In another show, with a lesser writer, such incongruities could be read as character inconsistencies, accidental oversights, mistakes.—
Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
7 Jan. 2026
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That creates a certain level of incongruity on those campuses.—
Dana Taylor,
USA Today,
11 Nov. 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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Trump's aggressive push to acquire Greenland turned to open antagonism toward allies in the days leading up to this year's forum.—
Danielle Kurtzleben,
NPR,
21 Jan. 2026
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This is particularly evident in the growing antagonism that certain factions express toward Vance.—
Thomas Chatterton Williams,
The Atlantic,
19 Jan. 2026
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“Incompatibility.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incompatibility. Accessed 29 Jan. 2026.
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