incoherence

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Recent Examples of incoherence On the whole, what is remarkable about Germany in World War II is the ideological cohesion among the military rather than any incoherence, something tightened by the initial victories and unraveling only at the very end, in 1944 and 1945. Nina Turner, Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2024 The career of Republican Tommy Thompson, who won an unprecedented four terms as governor, embodied the incoherence. Nancy C. Unger / Made By History, TIME, 28 Oct. 2024 Coppola snatches unassimilated ideas from current political paranoia and recent cultural catastrophes (manic news media promoting celebrity insanity), all tossed into the mix with demented incoherence. Armond White, National Review, 4 Oct. 2024 Maybe Trump’s incoherence on policy is finally catching up with him. Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for incoherence 
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Noun
  • The same illogic leads the progressive Left to equate Israel’s defense against Hamas terrorists with the October 7 atrocities, and to draw false equivalences between Daniel Penny’s intervention on a subway and Mangione’s premeditated execution.
    Matthew Continetti, National Review, 14 Dec. 2024
  • The logic, or illogic, of life was one thing; hockey offered another.
    Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2024
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  • In large part because of their own disunity, the Alawites never got their independent state.
    Hussein Ibish, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2024
  • After the election, betting sites may look less like oracles than mirrors, reflecting the nation’s disunity back at us.
    Lila Shroff, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Human experts — global health strategists, international NGOs, and community representatives — may shape these insights into fair response strategies acknowledging power imbalances, language barriers, and historical inequities between countries.
    Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes, 15 Dec. 2024
  • While the exact causes of IBS are not fully understood, factors like gut microbiota imbalances, immune dysfunction, and genetics likely play a role.
    Lindsay Curtis, Health, 15 Dec. 2024
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  • There’s a deep asymmetry at play here, with falling from grace requiring no effort whereas rebuilding what was lost takes heroic levels of effort.
    Alexander Puutio, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
  • This will reduce your chances of having asymmetries and imbalances between sides.
    Jenny McCoy, SELF, 23 Oct. 2024
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  • Those numbers and disproportion are likely to explode under the new law, in a climate where many people of color oppose Israel’s actions and many members of the Jewish faith see dangerous antisemites behind ugly encounters around Israel.
    Ron Kuby, New York Daily News, 26 Mar. 2024
  • The implications of this enormous disproportion are obvious, given that few governments support more than one or a handful of official languages.
    Ross Perlin, Foreign Affairs, 23 Apr. 2024
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  • But the dissonance between the current and future U.S. administrations is confusing major players in the Middle East.
    Howard LaFranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Dec. 2024
  • That ironic dissonance between words and music allows the Wolves of Glendale to operate on separate frequencies.
    Josh Weiss, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024
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  • Macron hosted Trump for a White House state dinner in 2018, but tensions emerged the following year over Macron's comments about NATO's status.
    Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 7 Dec. 2024
  • Or, pair it with another DIY Christmas garland or an evergreen garland, and hang them on your banister, mantle, or in a door frame using a tension rod for a full and playful look.
    Claire Hoppe Norgaard, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Dec. 2024
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  • Other lawmakers cited the violence at the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot as their reason for not attending the upcoming inauguration.
    Raja Krishnamoorthi, Newsweek, 16 Dec. 2024
  • In this location, there is a layering of histories of violence coupled with limited resources.
    Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 16 Dec. 2024

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“Incoherence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incoherence. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.

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