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Already concerned about the incongruity of having a comic yukking it up with what was happening with the AP and other outlets, the WHCA scrapped her.—
Ted Johnson,
Deadline,
27 Apr. 2025 -
Kirby’s incongruity is terrifying, so said someone much wiser than me.—
Mitch Wallace,
Forbes.com,
10 May 2025
Noun
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Employees often lose valuable time manually transferring data between systems and resolving inconsistencies, while delays slow down productivity across the board.—
Cynthia Tee,
Forbes.com,
11 July 2025
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Diddy's attorney, Nicole Westmoreland, brought up inconsistencies in Richard's multiple interviews with prosecutors.—
Lauryn Overhultz,
FOXNews.com,
9 July 2025
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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,
New York Times,
18 June 2025
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Often, what looks like a team issue is a mirror of your own incongruence.—
Carlos Hoyos,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2025
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But here’s another problem: The intensity of idealization could also cause a person to overlook key incompatibility issues and toxic patterns.—
Emma Specter,
Vogue,
5 July 2025
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And Johan’s efforts to bridge the growing distance between them just seem to confirm their incompatibility.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
27 June 2025
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“Incongruousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incongruousness. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.
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