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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inconsonance
Noun
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Martin, who is averaging 10.0 points per game, struggled with illness and inconsistency during the first half of the season.—
Matt Le Cren,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Feb. 2025 -
This growth potential stems from the inefficiencies of traditional trade finance systems, including operational bottlenecks, pricing inconsistencies and limited market access.—
Andreas Schweitzer,
Forbes,
27 Feb. 2025
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In her debut memoir, No Fault: A Memoir of Romance and Divorce, Haley Mlotek shows how this central incompatibility yields a useful provocation: There are hazards in relying on stories as the prevailing metaphor for one’s romantic experiences, and even one’s life in total.—
Rachel Vorona Cote,
The Atlantic,
19 Feb. 2025
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In their house, over a rich lunch of meat stew, Delores and Declan learn more about the nation’s cabbage scorn, make the same joke about Delores’ pants and demonstrate further incompatibility before taking off again.—
Lovia Gyarkye,
The Hollywood Reporter,
3 Sep. 2019
Noun
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But that incongruity becomes part of The Monkey’s strange sense of humor.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
21 Feb. 2025
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To me, their beauty derives in part from their incongruity with the sky’s naturally occurring features.—
Kate Folk,
New York Times,
11 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Through a playful yet serious, if not tragic, way of narrating society and its incongruences, Birgit Jürgenssen and Cinzia Ruggeri reflect on clothes and accessories as a way to express identity but also as a tool to analyze the societal and physical spaces occupied by women.—
PhotoVogue,
Vogue,
21 Feb. 2025
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These included, but were not limited to: Gender incongruence.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes,
20 Feb. 2025
Noun
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For more than a decade, the West has faced off against the East again in what was widely called a new cold war.—
Peter Baker,
New York Times,
19 Feb. 2025
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His efforts at alliance building reflected not the beginning of a multipolar era but an ideological contest between democracy and autocracy in a new cold war with China.—
Michael Brenes,
Foreign Affairs,
28 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Everything unravels for her after a rotten run-in with the law turns her into an informant.—
Randy Myers,
The Mercury News,
7 Mar. 2025
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The Hill run-in with police has received global attention, including NBC Nightly News reporter Jesse Kirsch interviewing the polarizing NFL star Monday night.—
David Goodhue,
Miami Herald,
7 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Sridhar Ramaswamy has a war cabinet of workers and frequently gets into quarrels with staffers over AI ambition.—
Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
24 Feb. 2025
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He’s been the attorney general for the state the last eight years, regularly an ally of litigation-ready Gov. Roy Cooper in quarrels with the Legislature.—
Alan Wooten | The Center Square,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
12 Jan. 2025
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Mercer has been able to see the funny side and bears no ill will toward DoorDash.—
Matt Robison,
Newsweek,
24 Feb. 2025
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There has been an awful lot of water under the bridge since then — and a lot of ill will between the clubs at boardroom level — but there was always a degree of respect between Guardiola and Klopp and, the odd flare-up aside, between the two sets of players.—
Oliver Kay,
The Athletic,
23 Feb. 2025
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“Inconsonance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inconsonance. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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