as in incongruity
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Noun
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Kirby’s incongruity is terrifying, so said someone much wiser than me.—
Mitch Wallace,
Forbes.com,
10 May 2025 -
Crumb’s gawky, eccentric persona was first revealed to the wider public in a 1994 documentary made by his friend Terry Zwigoff, which portrays the cartoonist with all of his incongruities.—
Gal Beckerman,
The Atlantic,
14 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Milan have, until recently, been consistent in their inconsistency as well as their tendency to make life difficult for themselves by going behind.—
James Horncastle,
New York Times,
14 May 2025
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But Griffin sees something more chaotic taking shape: a patchwork of exemptions and inconsistencies that reward political connections over economic fundamentals.—
Quartz Staff,
Quartz,
8 May 2025
Noun
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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
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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
Noun
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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
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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
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“Incongruousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incongruousness. Accessed 23 May. 2025.
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