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Recent Examples of incompatibility
Based on the 80/20 rule, there will always be certain incompatibilities.
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Connie Etemadi, USA Today, 2 Oct. 2025
But issues related to food-system reform have exposed potential incompatibilities between MAHA and leaders of the Republican Party, which has long been aligned with the food and agricultural industries, food-policy experts say.
—Dominique Mosbergen, Time, 29 Sep. 2025
Red flags warn of potential harm or incompatibility.
—Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
This often leads to incompatibility between vendors’ equipment, raising integration costs and risking IT and facility lifecycle mismatch.
—Ni Tao, Interesting Engineering, 19 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for incompatibility
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For heat tools, look for inconsistency with heating, odors, and discoloration and/or damage on the heating plates or barrel.—
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Azuaje makes the claims based on the forensic reports written by the regime’s own National Investigative Police, which point to inconsistencies in Maduro’s version of the events.—
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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.—
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There was an incongruence between the world that was built and then the actual songs.—
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In another show, with a lesser writer, such incongruities could be read as character inconsistencies, accidental oversights, mistakes.—
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That creates a certain level of incongruity on those campuses.—
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And the main driver of the inconsistences seems to be due to contractual obligations and profits.—
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Very inconsistent with practices, which led to inconsistence with games.—
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Since coming to power last year, Starmer has stressed the need for Britain to forge closer ties with the EU, following years of antagonism during the Brexit negotiations.—
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Hostile powers, particularly Russia, are using this free-for-all to inject lies, designed to inflame antagonisms or simply muddy the waters, into the bloodstream of democracy.—
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“Incompatibility.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incompatibility. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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