as in incongruity
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Recent Examples of incongruence
Such incongruence between actions and intentions can also bring about feelings of guilt.
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Becca Stanek,
TheWeek,
24 Apr. 2026
Some transgender people in the state will experience a similar incongruence between their physical appearance and the gender marker on their state ID.
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David Williams,
CNN Money,
5 Mar. 2026
Widening the fields, at the expense of seats The other main structural incongruence of NFL stadiums as World Cup venues was their narrowness.
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Henry Bushnell,
New York Times,
3 Feb. 2026
Teachers and school staff have a federal constitutional right to accurately inform the parent or guardian of their student when the student expresses gender incongruence.
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Howard Blume,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Jan. 2026
See All Example Sentences for incongruence
Becca Stanek,
TheWeek,
24 Apr. 2026
Some transgender people in the state will experience a similar incongruence between their physical appearance and the gender marker on their state ID.
—
David Williams,
CNN Money,
5 Mar. 2026
Widening the fields, at the expense of seats The other main structural incongruence of NFL stadiums as World Cup venues was their narrowness.
—
Henry Bushnell,
New York Times,
3 Feb. 2026
Teachers and school staff have a federal constitutional right to accurately inform the parent or guardian of their student when the student expresses gender incongruence.
—
Howard Blume,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Jan. 2026
See All Example Sentences for incongruence
Recent Examples of Synonyms for incongruence
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Irony involves incongruity, while tragicomedy is about possible congruity—not mutual erasure but the capacity for the tragic and comic to coexist.
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Nobody is more alive to the comic incongruity than the man himself.
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Astronomers are puzzled that such a glaring inconsistency could have gone unnoticed in existing data, such as the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), which provides our earliest snapshot of the universe.
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The Best Recruiting Technology Strengthens Human Judgment No recruiting team can manually validate every résumé detail, credential, communication pattern and interview inconsistency across hundreds or thousands of applicants.
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This phenomenon, called cytoplasmic incompatibility, also occurs when male and female mosquitoes carrying different strains of the bacterium mate.
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Her recent work revives a dreamy Renaissance style to show its absurd incompatibility with the raging, petulant menaces in whom the world’s power is concentrated.
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“Incongruence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incongruence. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.
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