incoherence

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Recent Examples of incoherence Maybe Trump’s incoherence on policy is finally catching up with him. Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2024 With a more-than-competent performance from Harris Tuesday, Trump’s lies, meandering, conspiracies and often general incoherence was made even more glaring. Domenico Montanaro, NPR, 11 Sep. 2024 His verbal stumbles and moments of incoherence were painful to watch. Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 28 June 2024 Nowhere is this incoherence more apparent than in policy toward Iran. Brett McGurk, Foreign Affairs, 22 Jan. 2020 See all Example Sentences for incoherence 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for incoherence
Noun
  • The logic, or illogic, of life was one thing; hockey offered another.
    Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2024
  • The riff has all the hallmarks of a classic Trumpian yarn — full of fabrication, riddled with illogic, defying the laws of physics and, by turns, rambling and hyperbolic, humorous and head-scratching.
    Ashley Parker, Washington Post, 26 July 2024
Noun
  • 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
  • These actions have also telegraphed vulnerability, disunity, and lack of resolve among Western allies to Beijing.
    Michael J. Green, Foreign Affairs, 8 July 2020
Noun
  • Helium is kept in pressurized tanks, and any leak can lower the system's pressure, risking an imbalance in fuel delivery to the engines, which could cause unstable combustion or even an engine shutdown.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Dak Prescott, who just shattered NFL records with a new contract extension, is playing like a bottom-half quarterback thanks to the imbalance.
    Jesse Reed, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • That batch of pipes performed seven times better on flow asymmetry than any prior measurements of Tesla valves.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 26 Sep. 2024
  • Of course, there are risks of complications with fat injection, too, including asymmetry or lumpiness.
    Taryn Brooke, Allure, 24 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • Of course, that dissonance between her look and sound also brought out detractors, unwilling to take a young girl like Trickz seriously as a rapper.
    Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Her fascination with the dissonance between the self and online presentation comes from having a very public career from a young age.
    Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 17 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • When tensions ratchet up, the two countries quickly mend fences.
    Sungmin Cho, Foreign Affairs, 12 Nov. 2024
  • Interest rates might edge down a bit more in the coming weeks, but many consumers and business owners could hold back borrowing if postelection tension and uncertainty revs up.
    Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 6 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Opened in 1956, Sunnyvale High School, the city’s second public high school, worked to achieve collaboration between students and educators, aiming to reduce violence and enrich the curriculum during the interracial tension that marked the 1960s and ’70s.
    Anne Gelhaus, The Mercury News, 10 Nov. 2024
  • The Brutalist offers a dark view of American society that could resonate under a Trump restoration, while Nickel Boys spotlights the victims of institutional violence.
    Nate Jones, Vulture, 9 Nov. 2024

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

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