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Recent Examples of incoherence
The Europe section highlights the incoherence of the grand plan.
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Thomas Wright, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2025
We’re saturated with incoherence — fragmented media, endless information, constant moral redefinition.
—Big Think, 29 Oct. 2025
President Biden’s policy since mid-2022 exhibited a veneer of strength, but its incoherence failed Ukraine and damaged American credibility.
—Kathleen Collins, Twin Cities, 26 Oct. 2025
Head coach Sean Payton acknowledged some aspects of play-call sequencing need to be cleaned up, but pointed more to in-week prep as the root of Denver’s offensive incoherence.
—Luca Evans, Denver Post, 23 Oct. 2025
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Thomas Wright, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2025
We’re saturated with incoherence — fragmented media, endless information, constant moral redefinition.
—Big Think, 29 Oct. 2025
President Biden’s policy since mid-2022 exhibited a veneer of strength, but its incoherence failed Ukraine and damaged American credibility.
—Kathleen Collins, Twin Cities, 26 Oct. 2025
Head coach Sean Payton acknowledged some aspects of play-call sequencing need to be cleaned up, but pointed more to in-week prep as the root of Denver’s offensive incoherence.
—Luca Evans, Denver Post, 23 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for incoherence
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Art schools, like all schools, are wobbling under the illogic of the cost-benefit math.—
Katy Siegel,
Artforum,
2 June 2026
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Wilson operated outside of conventional narrative, trusting in the magic of unexpected illogic.—
Classical Music Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
11 May 2026
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Most believe there could be solutions through civil dialog, there are answers in the middle, and there is destructive disunity at the fringes.—
Letters to the Editor,
Hartford Courant,
2 June 2026
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Whether that agreement will rapidly come to fruition on such a tight timeline is looking increasingly difficult – especially amid disunity among House and Senate Democrats.—
Zachary Schermele,
USA Today,
3 Feb. 2026
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Moreover, experts should introduce deliberate irrationality to disrupt the model’s predictive path.—
Syed Ahmad,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2026
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Viral memes and TikTok trends play up women’s purportedly excessive spike in libido during ovulation and dramatic irrationality during menstruation and the luteal phase (the 14 days or so between ovulation and menstruation).—
Andréa Becker,
The Atlantic,
3 May 2026
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At the time, the administration justified the duties by saying that America’s trade imbalance with global trade partners amounts to a balance-of-payments issue, which the law addresses.—
Kate Nishimura,
Footwear News,
11 June 2026
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Skin Issues An imbalance in the gut microbiome may cause skin changes, such as redness and irritation.—
Carrie Madormo,
Verywell Health,
11 June 2026
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The result is an aesthetic that skillfully balances a variety of textures, including injecting Shou Sugi Ban custom treatments inspired by Japanese principles of wabi-sabi that typically employ elements of asymmetry, roughness, and simplicity.—
Rachel Davies,
Architectural Digest,
12 June 2026
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The Syntilay x Terrell Owens collaboration — called the TO Reset recovery shoe — is generated from a scan of each customer’s foot that captures the individual’s unique geometry of width, instep, asymmetry and 3D shape.—
Vicki M. Young,
Footwear News,
11 June 2026
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Manuel also jangles this apparent order with the striking visual trope of disorienting disproportions of scale—figures appearing unexpectedly small or large in the course’s expanses.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
4 Feb. 2026
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Sonon, for example, started out as a cartoonist and uses physical disproportion to express the personalities of characters.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Dec. 2025
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Clear by now is that the end of the Soviet Union also opened the door to corruption and disorganization, undeniable and extraordinarily widespread.—
Arthur I. Cyr,
Chicago Tribune,
27 May 2026
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The administration has signaled that proposals from Tehran have gotten incrementally better as the negotiations have dragged on, but that disorganization of leadership has complicated the process.—
Timothy Nerozzi,
The Washington Examiner,
1 May 2026
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Fans don’t quite know what to make of the gloomy dissonance.—
Scottie Andrew,
CNN Money,
2 June 2026
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This dissonance carries over into Ali’s subsequent revenge mission.—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
1 June 2026
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“Incoherence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incoherence. Accessed 16 Jun. 2026.
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