How to Use incongruence in a Sentence

incongruence

noun
  • Will the new process lead to scenarios of moral incongruence?
    — London School Of Economics, Forbes.com, 4 Sep. 2025
  • There was an incongruence between the world that was built and then the actual songs.
    — Megan Cartwright, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Oct. 2025
  • The definition of incongruence is not compatible, not the same or out of place.
    — Andrea Alonso, Los Angeles Magazine, 4 Apr. 2018
  • Many of our brave officers are hampered by policy incongruence that many times lead to inaction.
    — Anthony Segrich, Sun Sentinel, 4 Feb. 2025
  • But Slotkin is proving over and over again her incongruence with that possibility.
    — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 14 July 2023
  • Lee's protein example is designed to show this micro/macro incongruence.
    — Kyle Munkittrick, Discover Magazine, 17 Jan. 2011
  • Such incongruence between actions and intentions can also bring about feelings of guilt.
    — Becca Stanek, TheWeek, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Ultimately, the answers will bring to light any incongruence that may exist and serve as your blueprint throughout the due diligence process.
    — Mindy Diamond, Forbes, 15 June 2022
  • All staff see the incongruence between leadership words and behaviors.
    — Kelly Tyler Byrnes, Forbes, 3 June 2021
  • The visual incongruence creates a sense of claustrophobia—for both Alice and the viewers—as though the entire house is closing in on her.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2024
  • Living with the fear and other feelings that came with her sense of gender incongruence, Borrowman said, put strain on her relationships.
    — Connor Sanders, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 May 2022
  • That fact — and its incongruence with the research university’s core credo that the truth shall set you free — has been difficult to reconcile for Daniels.
    — Angela Roberts, baltimoresun.com, 11 Dec. 2020
  • The seeming incongruence does not undermine voters’ recent shift away from the get-tough practices of the past, analysts said Wednesday.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 6 Nov. 2020
  • The incongruence between the conversations and the nutty visual narratives makes the series challenging to take in.
    — Maya Phillips, New York Times, 7 May 2021
  • The incongruence of Alex singing this basement college party song dead serious is a perfect encapsulation of the sweet chaos of karaoke – and a perfect karaoke song choice.
    — Leyla Shokoohe, The Enquirer, 8 June 2023
  • However, when faced with energetic incongruence, changing your career path is merely an escape, not a solution.
    — Annie Brown, Forbes, 13 May 2021
  • The joke gets huge laughs less on the merits of its structure than its violent incongruence with the tone of the rest of Notaro’s material, validating her instincts about it in the first place.
    — Hershal Pandya, Vulture, 28 Mar. 2024
  • The hiring manager and the HR team need to first agree on the value of diversity, or else this incongruence will show up in the way their communique is positioned and worded.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2021
  • The more senior the team, the more costly this incongruence becomes, because symbolic behavior travels quickly through the organization.
    — Britton Bloch, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
  • Puberty blockers, which cause no permanent changes, are used to pause irreversible physical changes while families consider what care is appropriate for a child with gender incongruence.
    — Kaitlin McCallum, Hartford Courant, 24 July 2025
  • 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
  • In her Venn diagrams, Kim presses uncomfortable categories together, exploring the space of overlap as one of incongruence and friction.
    — Mara Mills, Artforum, 1 Apr. 2025
  • For that reason, keeping gender incongruence in the ICD-11–but moving it to a different chapter–maintains access to health care like hormones or surgery that some trans people may be seeking.
    — Sarah Klein, Health.com, 20 June 2018
  • Particularly in provocative noncompliance or offer/withdrawal behaviors, there is a moment of incongruence.
    — Lucy Hicks, Science | AAAS, 3 Oct. 2020
  • Despite the seeming incongruence of the storybook architecture and seductive interiors, Loew found parallels.
    — Robert Rufino, House Beautiful, 6 Oct. 2022
  • Health Minister Simeon Brown said doctors would no longer be able to prescribe gonadotropin-releasing hormone analogues for gender dysphoria or incongruence to those seeking treatment for the conditions and not already on the drugs.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 20 Nov. 2025
  • In doing all this, a confederation would resolve thorny questions arising from the incongruence between citizenship, nationhood, and statehood as well as between demography, nationality, and sovereignty.
    — Omar M. Dajani, Foreign Affairs, 19 Sep. 2024

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