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Recent Examples of incongruence
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.
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Kaitlin McCallum, Hartford Courant, 24 July 2025
The Tennessee law, like ones in some 20 other states, prohibits medical providers from prescribing puberty-delaying medication, offering hormone therapy or performing surgery to treat the psychological distress caused by incongruence between experienced gender and that assigned at birth.
—New York Times, 18 June 2025
The incongruence between today’s realities and the history of the Cold War has stunted the search for a new American strategy.
—Justin Winokur, Foreign Affairs, 13 July 2023
The company points to an incongruence in recent studies, finding one in three Americans walk for fitness, but also 74 percent of people do so in running shoes rather than those designed specifically for walking.
—Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
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Kaitlin McCallum, Hartford Courant, 24 July 2025
The Tennessee law, like ones in some 20 other states, prohibits medical providers from prescribing puberty-delaying medication, offering hormone therapy or performing surgery to treat the psychological distress caused by incongruence between experienced gender and that assigned at birth.
—New York Times, 18 June 2025
The incongruence between today’s realities and the history of the Cold War has stunted the search for a new American strategy.
—Justin Winokur, Foreign Affairs, 13 July 2023
The company points to an incongruence in recent studies, finding one in three Americans walk for fitness, but also 74 percent of people do so in running shoes rather than those designed specifically for walking.
—Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for incongruence
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Some of the hangars are used as soundstages, and Linklater pointed out an old air-traffic-control tower, jutting, with pleasing retro-futurist incongruity, out of a public plaza.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
27 Sep. 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
Noun
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Thompson was retried over a year later in February 2025, and the prosecution pointed out inconsistencies from his 2023 testimony.—
Emily Blackwood,
PEOPLE,
4 Oct. 2025
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To add insult to injury, Death Valley as a surface-level alien conspiracy in the Eisenhower era is far less interesting from its onset and deeply unsatisfying, being riddled with inconsistencies at every turn.—
James Mercadante,
Entertainment Weekly,
1 Oct. 2025
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But issues related to food-system reform have exposed potential incompatibilities between MAHA and leaders of the Republican Party, which has long been aligned with the food and agricultural industries, food-policy experts say.—
Dominique Mosbergen,
Time,
29 Sep. 2025
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Red flags warn of potential harm or incompatibility.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
16 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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“Incongruence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incongruence. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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