as in inconsistency
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inconsonance
Noun
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Leclerc was confident of winning the pole position after FP2, but the situation shifted on Saturday due to an alleged inconsistency in the SF-25's performance.—
Mark Davis,
Newsweek,
15 Mar. 2025 -
Defense attorney Peter Kuykendall noted his client’s age and said a person’s inconsistencies can increase with age.—
Cameron Macdonald,
The Mercury News,
13 Mar. 2025
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When every part of the company works off the same platform, rolling out changes becomes much simpler as there’s no need to worry about incompatibility.—
Maksym Kryvoshlyk,
Forbes,
24 Oct. 2024
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Turkey’s claim that the United States never warned of this incompatibility is simply not true.—
Philip H. Gordon,
Foreign Affairs,
10 Jan. 2020
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But that incongruity becomes part of The Monkey’s strange sense of humor.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
21 Feb. 2025
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To me, their beauty derives in part from their incongruity with the sky’s naturally occurring features.—
Kate Folk,
New York Times,
11 Feb. 2025
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Through a playful yet serious, if not tragic, way of narrating society and its incongruences, Birgit Jürgenssen and Cinzia Ruggeri reflect on clothes and accessories as a way to express identity but also as a tool to analyze the societal and physical spaces occupied by women.—
PhotoVogue,
Vogue,
21 Feb. 2025
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These included, but were not limited to: Gender incongruence.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes,
20 Feb. 2025
Noun
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For more than a decade, the West has faced off against the East again in what was widely called a new cold war.—
Peter Baker,
New York Times,
19 Feb. 2025
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His efforts at alliance building reflected not the beginning of a multipolar era but an ideological contest between democracy and autocracy in a new cold war with China.—
Michael Brenes,
Foreign Affairs,
28 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Earlier run-ins with flu can pay off During the last influenza pandemic — the 2009 swine flu outbreak — people under 65 accounted for most of the hospitalizations and deaths.—
Will Stone,
NPR,
19 Mar. 2025
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Colbert had prior run-ins with the law in New Orleans.—
Laura Barcella,
People.com,
18 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The quarrel swiftly escalated when Perez allegedly struck her twice on the left side of her temple and pulled her hair.—
Milena Malaver,
Miami Herald,
26 Feb. 2025
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As the quarrel over seating escalated, the attacker, who was wearing a black face mask, slashed the victim on his left hand with an unknown weapon.—
Rocco Parascandola,
New York Daily News,
26 Feb. 2025
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Mercer has been able to see the funny side and bears no ill will toward DoorDash.—
Matt Robison,
Newsweek,
24 Feb. 2025
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There has been an awful lot of water under the bridge since then — and a lot of ill will between the clubs at boardroom level — but there was always a degree of respect between Guardiola and Klopp and, the odd flare-up aside, between the two sets of players.—
Oliver Kay,
The Athletic,
23 Feb. 2025
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“Inconsonance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inconsonance. Accessed 22 Mar. 2025.
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