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Recent Examples of incomprehension At this point, armed with insights about labor, the commodity, and the money-form, the reader may be shedding any melancholy incomprehension—but can’t yet have arrived at angry lucidity. Benjamin Kunkel, Harpers Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025 The piece, as is true of much of my reporting, grew from my own incomprehension and curiosity about what was going on. Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2025 Take it as an opportunity to practice sitting with your incomprehension and curiosity. Esther K. Choy, Forbes, 1 Dec. 2024 Political polarization in this country is such that partisans look at each other with mutual incomprehension. Gary Langer, ABC News, 5 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for incomprehension
Recent Examples of Synonyms for incomprehension
misunderstanding
Noun
  • Shane Hubbard, a UW-Madison research scientist specializing in damage and loss estimation from disasters, said that misunderstandings of what type of insurance offers the most protection result in homeowners being left with hefty bills and little government assistance.
    Tamia Fowlkes, jsonline.com, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Like the two previous installments, on Jeffrey Dahmer and the Menendez brothers, Ed Gein retells in lurid—and largely fantastical—detail the legend of a notorious murderer, with the aim of discerning what our collective obsession with and inevitable misunderstanding of each case says about society.
    Judy Berman, Time, 6 Oct. 2025

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“Incomprehension.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incomprehension. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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