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Recent Examples of incongruence
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.
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New York Times, 18 June 2025
In her Venn diagrams, Kim presses uncomfortable categories together, exploring the space of overlap as one of incongruence and friction.
—Mara Mills, Artforum, 1 Apr. 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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New York Times, 18 June 2025
In her Venn diagrams, Kim presses uncomfortable categories together, exploring the space of overlap as one of incongruence and friction.
—Mara Mills, Artforum, 1 Apr. 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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Likewise, the airy comedy (boosted by Thomas Newman’s sprightly if familiar-sounding score) insists on the seeming incongruity between the film’s lovely setting and its darker subject matter.—
Manuel Betancourt,
Variety,
22 Aug. 2025
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In contemplating the religious system of the Aztecs, one is struck with its apparent incongruity, as if some portion of it had emanated from a comparatively refined people, open to gentle influences, while the rest breathes a spirit of unmitigated ferocity.—
Sebastian Purcell
August 18,
Literary Hub,
18 Aug. 2025
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According to the company, real-world factors such as dynamic inconsistencies, sensor noise and latency, actuator delays and nonlinearities, and variable ground properties can cause strategies optimized in simulation to slip or destabilize in practice.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
12 Sep. 2025
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Detection is the biggest hurdle A significant factor in the inconsistency from state to state is that there is no standardized way to measure drug impairment as there is with blood alcohol content.—
Andrew Yockey,
The Conversation,
11 Sep. 2025
Noun
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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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This incompatibility often requires significant upgrades, workarounds or custom interfaces that must be designed and built.—
John Clemons,
Forbes.com,
14 Aug. 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 16 Sep. 2025.
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