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as in illogic
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as in disunity
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Recent Examples of incoherence
Their incoherence not only reduced the efficacy of their policies but eroded public trust and confidence, as officials seemingly contradicted themselves or shifted the goalposts.
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Baruch Fischhoff, Foreign Affairs, 4 Oct. 2021
The international community greeted their ascent with optimism, in the hope that these figures will drag the government out of the corruption, institutional incoherence, and alienation in which it has been mired since 2003.
—Toby Dodge, Foreign Affairs, 17 Oct. 2018
And Pantera has less exposition than most heist flicks, which gives it an extra frisson of pleasant incoherence.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 10 Jan. 2025
Getty herself died at eighty-four, after a long slide into incoherence.
—Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
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Baruch Fischhoff, Foreign Affairs, 4 Oct. 2021
The international community greeted their ascent with optimism, in the hope that these figures will drag the government out of the corruption, institutional incoherence, and alienation in which it has been mired since 2003.
—Toby Dodge, Foreign Affairs, 17 Oct. 2018
And Pantera has less exposition than most heist flicks, which gives it an extra frisson of pleasant incoherence.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 10 Jan. 2025
Getty herself died at eighty-four, after a long slide into incoherence.
—Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for incoherence
Noun
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The circular illogic perfectly encapsulates college football.—
Jon Wilner,
The Mercury News,
25 Feb. 2025
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The illogic of dreams is not a riddle to be solved but a noise that can reveal the meaningful signal.—
Adam Gopnik,
The New Yorker,
20 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Dissension, division and disunity are the order of the day.—
Linda Chapin,
Orlando Sentinel,
9 Mar. 2025
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By unilaterally starting negotiations with Russia over the heads of Ukraine and Europe, Trump has begun a controversial process of bringing Moscow in from the diplomatic cold, sowing disunity among Washington’s traditional allies.—
Matthew Chance,
CNN,
6 Mar. 2025
Noun
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In fact, some research has shown that consistently using one side of your mouth to eat can strengthen and grow those muscles, potentially leading to subtle imbalances in the lower half of your face.—
Jenna Ryu,
SELF,
28 Mar. 2025
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Less muscle mass and an imbalance between the front and backs of the thighs could put the knee ligaments at greater risk.—
Bruce Y. Lee,
Forbes.com,
26 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Adding to the asymmetry of the design, Good’s dress featured a bold cutout on one side, which met a thigh-high slit.—
Julia Teti,
WWD,
5 Feb. 2025
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Indeed, the asymmetry in economic dependency between the two countries is glaring.—
Ali Hoss,
Forbes,
13 Mar. 2025
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Between the assassination in Sarajevo, the mass slaughter in the trenches, and the stagnant front lines lie disproportions so immense that cause and effect lose all relation.—
George Packer,
The Atlantic,
5 Feb. 2025
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Just as the point of state neutrality is personal non-neutrality, the point of political egalitarianism is interpersonal disproportion.—
Becca Rothfeld,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Mar. 2024
Noun
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Produced by Rodney Jones, the Detroit hip-hop-inflected and gospel-infused track explores moving with life when you’re supposed to instead of forcing harmony where there is only dissonance.—
Michael Saponara,
Billboard,
8 Apr. 2025
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Corporate dissonance This environment creates a strange kind of corporate dissonance.—
London Business School,
Forbes,
25 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Buster’s also the apple of his mother Maggie’s eye, a lifelong source of tension with his younger brother Paul.—
Rosy Cordero,
Deadline,
31 Mar. 2025
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This leaves Timothy with the gun, which created a lot of tension that is now basically gone.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
31 Mar. 2025
Noun
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One where the memories are as much of romance as violence, as based around out-of-pocket jokes as tears.—
Alphonse Pierre,
Pitchfork,
28 Mar. 2025
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That the specific task at hand in Warfare is so vague is a good reminder that though this happened 20 years ago, there are people right now who have been ordered to enforce political will with violence, and this savagery will likely repeat for all time.—
Jordan Hoffman,
EW.com,
28 Mar. 2025
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“Incoherence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incoherence. Accessed 14 Apr. 2025.
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