incommensurate
adjective
in·com·men·su·rate
ˌin-kə-ˈmen(t)-s(ə-)rət 
-ˈmen(t)-sh(ə-)rət
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The vocalizations of birds are fundamentally incommensurate with human ones.
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Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024
Diasporic artists must navigate incommensurate signifying systems, occupying a borderline position that forces them to fuse avant-garde features with others of a popular or academic nature.
—Manuel Borja-Villel, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2024
Cities boom, then bust or stagnate, leaving public infrastructure that is incommensurate with present needs.
—Alec MacGillis, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2024
Quite simply, the current approach to climate cooperation is incommensurate with the gravity of the crisis.
—Jessica F. Green, Foreign Affairs, 12 Nov. 2021
How incommensurate with our small, breakable animal bodies — this awful, awesome notion, the infinite.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 12 Sep. 2023
Despite the complexity of these latter ideas, her use of diagrams and figures helps to reinforce their approachability—although in some cases their incommensurate simplicity feels unsatisfying.
—Amy Brady, Scientific American, 20 June 2023
The problem, as Leavis understood, is that science and the humanities are inherently incommensurate endeavors.
—Paula Marantz Cohen, WSJ, 28 July 2017
Open the front door to chef-owner Genet Agonafer’s restaurant, a dining room that seems both a local fixture and oddly incommensurate with the neighborhood.
—Amy Scattergood, latimes.com, 9 June 2017
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Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024
Diasporic artists must navigate incommensurate signifying systems, occupying a borderline position that forces them to fuse avant-garde features with others of a popular or academic nature.
—Manuel Borja-Villel, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2024
Cities boom, then bust or stagnate, leaving public infrastructure that is incommensurate with present needs.
—Alec MacGillis, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2024
Quite simply, the current approach to climate cooperation is incommensurate with the gravity of the crisis.
—Jessica F. Green, Foreign Affairs, 12 Nov. 2021
How incommensurate with our small, breakable animal bodies — this awful, awesome notion, the infinite.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 12 Sep. 2023
Despite the complexity of these latter ideas, her use of diagrams and figures helps to reinforce their approachability—although in some cases their incommensurate simplicity feels unsatisfying.
—Amy Brady, Scientific American, 20 June 2023
The problem, as Leavis understood, is that science and the humanities are inherently incommensurate endeavors.
—Paula Marantz Cohen, WSJ, 28 July 2017
Open the front door to chef-owner Genet Agonafer’s restaurant, a dining room that seems both a local fixture and oddly incommensurate with the neighborhood.
—Amy Scattergood, latimes.com, 9 June 2017
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incommensurate
adjective
in·com·men·su·rate
ˌin-kə-ˈmen(t)s-(ə-)rət
-ˈmench-(ə-)rət
: not commensurate: as
a
: inadequate
funds incommensurate with need
b
: disproportionate
a confidence incommensurate with his ability
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