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  • noun Plural form of incongruence.

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Examples

  • I admit to feeling some watery incongruences (humans usually refer to them as 'tears') in my eyes whenever I happen to see it.

    Catch-Catch Up-Up! E3 Is Coming!! SVGL 2009

  • Osmotic and diffusive forces in human society are all the results of incongruences, disparities, differences, inequalities and the negative and positive emotions attached to them.

    Moral Deliberations in Modern Cinema Samuel Vaknin

  • Others, though, see the wintry landscape as undermining the direness - or even the reality - of the threat posed by climate change, which they prefer to refer to as global warming, thus underscoring what they see as the incongruences between the phenomenon and the snowy spell.

    t r u t h o u t 2010

  • Others, though, see the wintry landscape as undermining the direness - or even the reality - of the threat posed by climate change, which they prefer to refer to as global warming, thus underscoring what they see as the incongruences between the phenomenon and the snowy spell.

    t r u t h o u t 2010

  • Others, though, see the wintry landscape as undermining the direness - or even the reality - of the threat posed by climate change, which they prefer to refer to as global warming, thus underscoring what they see as the incongruences between the phenomenon and the snowy spell.

    European Tribune European Tribune 2010

  • Others, though, see the wintry landscape as undermining the direness - or even the reality - of the threat posed by climate change, which they prefer to refer to as global warming, thus underscoring what they see as the incongruences between the phenomenon and the snowy spell.

    CommonDreams.org Headlines 2010

  • Others, though, see the wintry landscape as undermining the direness - or even the reality - of the threat posed by climate change, which they prefer to refer to as global warming, thus underscoring what they see as the incongruences between the phenomenon and the snowy spell.

    European Tribune European Tribune 2010

  • Rather, the Bible has succeeded in holding the captivation of billions of members of species because of its incongruences and its non-linear modes of telling God's story.

    Sam Harrelson 2009

  • Instead of the beauty of incongruences and all-night wrestling with the text by the banks of the Jabbok, the veneer of beauty is located in the surface sacrificial history reading giving the Old and New Testaments an ultimate purpose of affirming the central Godliness of Jesus the human above and beyond any other textual issues that may arise.

    Sam Harrelson 2009

  • Some of these incongruences were visible in the last MoMa show.

    Archinect.com Feed 2008

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