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Recent Examples of incompatible Other candidates were removed for using a wrong address, filing to run for both school board and village board, which are incompatible offices and having an insufficient number of signatures. Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 2 Apr. 2025 One day the hospital switched its electronic medical record system to a program that was incompatible with his screen reader. Calmatters, The Mercury News, 14 Mar. 2025 The audio industry’s future probably doesn’t lie in a competing web of incompatible formats. Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2025 But those goals seem to be incompatible in some ways. ABC News, 6 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for incompatible
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Adjective
  • These are two starkly conflicting therapeutic pieces of advice.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 22 Apr. 2025
  • The tallest sediment stack The mystery of Mars’ missing carbon stems from two seemingly conflicting results.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 18 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • But his hands are inconsistent after recording the most drops (10) of any receiver in the nation last season.
    Antwan Staley, New York Daily News, 2 May 2025
  • Orlando Sentinel Chicago has been inconsistent this season, most recently losing to Nashville SC 7-2, and has gone winless in the last five matches.
    Kyle Foley, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 May 2025

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“Incompatible.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incompatible. Accessed 8 May. 2025.

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