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Noun
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Irony involves incongruity, while tragicomedy is about possible congruity—not mutual erasure but the capacity for the tragic and comic to coexist.—
Eugenie Brinkema,
ARTnews.com,
14 June 2026 -
Nobody is more alive to the comic incongruity than the man himself.—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
8 May 2026
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Questions were congratulatory in nature, although one festivalgoer noted AI’s inconsistency as a tool.—
Savannah Walsh,
Vanity Fair,
12 June 2026
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No amount of values language can compensate for lived inconsistency at the top.—
Britton Bloch,
Forbes.com,
12 June 2026
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Such incongruence between actions and intentions can also bring about feelings of guilt.—
Becca Stanek,
TheWeek,
24 Apr. 2026
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Psychologists call it a low tolerance for cognitive incongruence.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
15 Apr. 2026
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And, of course, the incompatibility will apply to retirement savers outside of the state programs as well.—
Sarah Agostino,
CNBC,
29 May 2026
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Increasingly, experts suggest relationship strain may not always reflect incompatibility as much as cumulative exhaustion.—
Maia Niguel Hoskin,
Forbes.com,
20 May 2026
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“Incongruousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incongruousness. Accessed 16 Jun. 2026.
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