incoherency
Americannoun
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incoherencies
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of incoherency
First recorded in 1675–85; in- 3 + coherency ( def. )
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“His main dilemma was the incoherency in his writing, and lack of a recognizable argument,” Professor Ronell said in a January 2018 interview submitted to the Title IX office.
From New York Times ● Aug. 13, 2018
In the incoherency of our citizenship, we don’t matter to here, and as Rodney King said, “We are stuck here for a while.”
From The Guardian ● Oct. 12, 2014
Sneaky statistical manipulation often bubbles up into conceptual incoherency, as it did in Pielke’s article and now in Silver’s defense of it.
From Slate ● Mar. 31, 2014
At a workers' meeting he lapsed into incoherency.
From Time Magazine Archive
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“I do have some trouble with incoherency when I’m around him,” I admitted.
From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer
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Anyhow, whatever it was that threw readers of the book into incoherencies has been carried over into the picture.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2022
I think we're seeing people who don't know anything about CRT, don't know anything about academic freedom or free speech, and don't know anything about higher education writing these bills filled with contradictions and incoherencies.
From Salon ● Mar. 7, 2022
I could see no course to follow among these incoherencies but that of candor.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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Or if I trumped up some story—which I easily could do—would she not betray herself by her own incoherencies as she recovered from her faint?
From The Lady of the Ice A Novel by James De Mille
A succession of weak and ineffective ministries had been followed by Clemenceau's incoherencies and alterations of policy, though it remained consistently Radical and not socialistic.
From A History of the Third French Republic by C. H. C. (Charles Henry Conrad) Wright
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