incompatibility

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Recent Examples of incompatibility There were no disagreements, no incompatibilities revealed — something that never had the chance to go wrong. Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 26 May 2025 Ukraine’s Finance Minister Serhii Marchenko has called for fair adjustments, emphasizing the warrants’ incompatibility with Ukraine’s post-invasion economic realities. Katya Soldak, Forbes.com, 27 Apr. 2025 This incompatibility often comes down to the CTO wanting to invest in technology at the expense of product innovation and vice versa. Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 6 May 2025 In a TikTok video, Jaime Fisher, 42, shared her experience marrying someone with different values, sparking conversations about compatibility, self-awareness and the long-term impact of overlooking foundational incompatibilities. Tom Rogers, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for incompatibility
Recent Examples of Synonyms for incompatibility
Noun
  • The Jane Doe went on to voluntarily dismiss her entire complaint against Carter and Combs with prejudice — meaning it can’t be filed again — on Feb. 14 after admitting there were inconsistencies in her story.
    Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 1 July 2025
  • To me, this highlights a glaring inconsistency in evangelical thought.
    Ed Gaskin, Boston Herald, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • Often, what looks like a team issue is a mirror of your own incongruence.
    Carlos Hoyos, Forbes.com, 28 May 2025
  • The incongruence between attacking the President for imposing new costs on small businesses through tariffs while also supporting state legislation to impose new costs on small businesses will be a politically inconvenient fact for Governor Pritzker to explain.
    Patrick Gleason, Forbes.com, 9 May 2025
Noun
  • Already concerned about the incongruity of having a comic yukking it up with what was happening with the AP and other outlets, the WHCA scrapped her.
    Ted Johnson, Deadline, 27 Apr. 2025
  • Kirby’s incongruity is terrifying, so said someone much wiser than me.
    Mitch Wallace, Forbes.com, 10 May 2025
Noun
  • And the main driver of the inconsistences seems to be due to contractual obligations and profits.
    Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Very inconsistent with practices, which led to inconsistence with games.
    Percy Allen, The Seattle Times, 31 July 2018
Noun
  • An important aspect of the kinship between Irish and Black American culture is the spirit of subversion and play that arises because of this simultaneous dependence and antagonism.
    Benjamin Hale June 23, Literary Hub, 23 June 2025
  • The ethnic antagonism in The Fabelmans, from 2022, suggests that Spielberg came to distrust the parochialism that the white Anglo-Saxon Beach Boys represented, along with the diversity that Americans had struggled against.
    Armond White, National Review, 18 June 2025

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“Incompatibility.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incompatibility. Accessed 11 Jul. 2025.

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