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Recent Examples of incoherence
President Biden’s policy since mid-2022 exhibited a veneer of strength, but its incoherence failed Ukraine and damaged American credibility.
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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
This kind of incoherence doesn’t just confuse the public.
—Dr. Craig Spencer, Time, 23 Sep. 2025
The emotional ballast of the film — Davidson’s bond with Dottie Achenbach (a wonderful Maxine Peake), the mother of one his childhood friends, who is also fighting her own health battles — also suffers from moments of incoherence, but the immense power of that bond goes a long way.
—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 7 Sep. 2025
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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
This kind of incoherence doesn’t just confuse the public.
—Dr. Craig Spencer, Time, 23 Sep. 2025
The emotional ballast of the film — Davidson’s bond with Dottie Achenbach (a wonderful Maxine Peake), the mother of one his childhood friends, who is also fighting her own health battles — also suffers from moments of incoherence, but the immense power of that bond goes a long way.
—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 7 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for incoherence
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How responsible a mother can be for her son’s actions remains an open question, but the contortions of her denial, with its euphemisms and its illogic, are closely and relentlessly examined, as is her inability to speak or act to stop him.—
Katie Kitamura,
Harpers Magazine,
16 July 2025
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The circular illogic perfectly encapsulates college football.—
Jon Wilner,
The Mercury News,
25 Feb. 2025
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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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One minute, the Earth’s citizens are pursuing their destinies in raucous, competitive disunity.—
Graham Hillard,
The Washington Examiner,
28 Nov. 2025
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In such conditions, apparent irrationality can invite probing, hedging or reciprocal escalation.—
Andrew Latham,
The Conversation,
26 Jan. 2026
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Such irrationality proofs have been rare — and at times, according to longtime Quanta contributor Erica Klarreich, dramatic.—
Jordana Cepelewicz,
Quanta Magazine,
18 Dec. 2025
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Nowhere is this imbalance more obvious than in nursing homes and hospitals.—
Grace Brown,
Fortune,
5 Feb. 2026
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Crepey skin is often linked to changes in collagen and elastin, combined with a moisture imbalance, which is where body oils shine.—
Christa Joanna Lee,
Allure,
5 Feb. 2026
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The regulatory asymmetry distorted competition and made Verizon’s devices uniquely attractive to criminals.—
Roslyn Layton,
Boston Herald,
10 Feb. 2026
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That asymmetry has collapsed During the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020, corporations rushed to declare their commitments to racial justice, diversity and social responsibility.—
Alessandro Piazza,
The Conversation,
5 Feb. 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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The winner of this game would be determined by which team survived disrepair and disorganization better.—
Julia Poe,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Jan. 2026
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Psychosis, disorganization, unkempt, urinating inappropriately.—
Kelly Davis,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 Jan. 2026
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That is why the booing of Israeli — and in some moments American — athletes during the opening ceremony landed with such dissonance.—
Rabbi Bruce D. Forman,
Sun Sentinel,
10 Feb. 2026
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This debut novel, told entirely in testimony by various members of the Sarafs’ Northern Virginia community, presents itself as a mystery and reveals itself to be a highly human story about cultural dissonance and the limits of acceptance.—
Jasmine Vojdani,
Vulture,
4 Feb. 2026
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“Incoherence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incoherence. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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