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Recent Examples of incompatibility
This is despite challenges such as limited scalability, security vulnerabilities, high maintenance costs and incompatibility with modern technologies.
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Adrian Bridgwater, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025
Nevertheless, the city’s DOT, which runs the Staten Island Ferry, began testing the fuel on one vessel — the Sen. John J. Marchi — in October to rule out any incompatibilities.
—Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 17 June 2025
Between 50% to 75% of acquisitions fail, with cultural incompatibility cited as one of the main reasons.
—Rem Oculee, Forbes.com, 2 June 2025
There were no disagreements, no incompatibilities revealed — something that never had the chance to go wrong.
—Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 26 May 2025
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Adrian Bridgwater, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025
Nevertheless, the city’s DOT, which runs the Staten Island Ferry, began testing the fuel on one vessel — the Sen. John J. Marchi — in October to rule out any incompatibilities.
—Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 17 June 2025
Between 50% to 75% of acquisitions fail, with cultural incompatibility cited as one of the main reasons.
—Rem Oculee, Forbes.com, 2 June 2025
There were no disagreements, no incompatibilities revealed — something that never had the chance to go wrong.
—Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 26 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for incompatibility
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Employees often lose valuable time manually transferring data between systems and resolving inconsistencies, while delays slow down productivity across the board.—
Cynthia Tee,
Forbes.com,
11 July 2025
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Diddy's attorney, Nicole Westmoreland, brought up inconsistencies in Richard's multiple interviews with prosecutors.—
Lauryn Overhultz,
FOXNews.com,
9 July 2025
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The Tennessee law, like ones in some 20 other states, prohibits medical providers from prescribing puberty-delaying medication, offering hormone therapy or performing surgery to treat the psychological distress caused by incongruence between experienced gender and that assigned at birth.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
18 June 2025
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Often, what looks like a team issue is a mirror of your own incongruence.—
Carlos Hoyos,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2025
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Already concerned about the incongruity of having a comic yukking it up with what was happening with the AP and other outlets, the WHCA scrapped her.—
Ted Johnson,
Deadline,
27 Apr. 2025
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Kirby’s incongruity is terrifying, so said someone much wiser than me.—
Mitch Wallace,
Forbes.com,
10 May 2025
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And the main driver of the inconsistences seems to be due to contractual obligations and profits.—
Jake Frederico,
The Arizona Republic,
21 Apr. 2023
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Very inconsistent with practices, which led to inconsistence with games.—
Percy Allen,
The Seattle Times,
31 July 2018
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An important aspect of the kinship between Irish and Black American culture is the spirit of subversion and play that arises because of this simultaneous dependence and antagonism.—
Benjamin Hale
June 23,
Literary Hub,
23 June 2025
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The ethnic antagonism in The Fabelmans, from 2022, suggests that Spielberg came to distrust the parochialism that the white Anglo-Saxon Beach Boys represented, along with the diversity that Americans had struggled against.—
Armond White,
National Review,
18 June 2025
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“Incompatibility.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incompatibility. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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