How to Use incompatibility in a Sentence

incompatibility

noun

• If the snack misses and hits me in the forehead, that could be a telltale sign of incompatibility.
  — Sara K. Runnel, The New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2021
• The Founders did not see, as some see today, any incompatibility between the rights of property and the rights of man.
  — Thomas Wendel, National Review, 4 July 2019
• The incompatibility caused so much wear that the city had to replace a half mile of rail weeks before the metro even started carrying passengers.
  — New York Times, 13 June 2021
• The main reason for incompatibility is the nature of the charger plug that fits into an electric car’s charging port.
  — Russ Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2023
• As always, check out the reviews in advance of buying any kit, just in case any known incompatibility issues get flagged up.
  — David Nield, Wired, 15 Mar. 2020
• In that case, the longstanding rivalry between Epic Games and Valve might have something to do with the incompatibility.
  — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 3 Mar. 2022
• Step three was to game the system further by rewriting a record for the Emotet bot to include a string warning of DOS-mode incompatibility that appears in a wide variety of system files.
  — Rob Pegoraro, PCMAG, 10 Aug. 2023
• Might there be a degree of incompatibility between openness to other ways of being and SETI’s core tenets?
  — Camilo Garzón, Scientific American, 10 Aug. 2022
• Take a rain check on social connections; the fun may fall flat due to incompatibility issues.
  — oregonlive, 5 June 2020
• Time and time again wine creates a simple yet unbreakable bond between man and land against all odds of incompatibility.
  — Ani Duzdabanyan, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2023
• If, for example, a woman is worried that her partner doesn’t spend enough quality time with her, that might just be a sign of incompatibility.
  — Elissa Strauss, The Atlantic, 25 Feb. 2024
• Why this matters: The vast majority of new CPU sales are in new systems, and they likely won’t be impacted by the incompatibility.
  — Gordon Mah Ung, PCWorld, 2 Aug. 2017
• Design changes in the past year helped address the incompatibility with the corridor’s track and its catenary system — the overhead wires that supply the train with electricity.
  — Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2022
• But the procedure has been slow to take hold among overseas flyers, in part because of the incompatibility of each airlines e-ticketing systems, an IBM spokesman said.
  — Wired News Report, WIRED, 11 Aug. 1999
• On the advice of a lawyer, Hayek gathered more evidence of their incompatibility.
  — Corey Robin, The New Yorker, 29 June 2024
• For example, a user on Bitcoin wanting to move assets to an Ethereum wallet would be unable to make the transfer without the bridge due to incompatibility.
  — Asha C. Gilbert, USA TODAY, 24 June 2022
• Likewise, the incompatibility with other bottles forces parents to buy more bottles from Ember to avoid having to clean a bottle every time the baby needs to eat.
  — Dorian Smith-Garcia, Parents, 18 Sep. 2023
• This City presents about the basic incompatibility between members of the police and those being policed.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 20 Apr. 2022
• Instead, Lambert called it an incompatibility of the offices, for which the only recourse would be to remove Wondolowski from one of the positions.
  — Kaitlin Durbin, cleveland, 18 Apr. 2022
• In a major war scenario, the two planes will frequently fly alongside each other, so this incompatibility is a big problem.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 15 Sep. 2021
• Any chemistry the two have in scenes, and there is some chemistry, often wanes under the collective incompatibility of their families.
  — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 27 Jan. 2023
• Graham said that perhaps the most important feature of discernment is looking beyond themes of incompatibility and blame to each spouse's role in the breakdown.
  — Jackie Pilossoph, chicagotribune.com, 26 Apr. 2017
• The port's interface is admittedly barebones, made up of menus that require a keyboard to pick through, and its incompatibility with mice and touchpads is startling at first.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 29 June 2022
• Beeper was supposed to fix those incompatibilities and put Android users on a level playing field with iPhone owners.
  — Lauren Goode, WIRED, 21 Dec. 2023
• That incompatibility, though nothing new, fails Black people by design, and that failure has damaged us all.
  — Sydette Harry, Wired, 11 Jan. 2021
• The championship window is slim and any sniff of roster incompatibility needs to be addressed ASAP.
  — Shayna Rubin, The Mercury News, 13 Jan. 2024
• The project—initially called The Lovers and conceived of as a kind of wedding—had turned, over years of waiting and broken trust, into a meditation on their incompatibility and separation.
  — Michael I. Norton, TIME, 11 Apr. 2024
• Absences, injuries, age and roster incompatibility can be mostly attributed to this 20-24 record, but the identity crisis stems from a gray area between young and old.
  — Shayna Rubin, The Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2024
• Washington had hoped for dozens more interceptors, but that effort fell through due to incompatibility with U.S. stocks, the officials said.
  — Michelle Ye Hee Lee, Washington Post, 27 July 2024
• But the device's performance, and especially the relative immaturity of the Linux Arm software ecosystem, meant that there were lots of incompatibilities and rough edges.
  — Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 1 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024