congruity
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It was a congruity that called out for someone to remark upon, and Sullivan was just that person.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 28, 2021
People nest within like-minded social networks and then get social credit by amplifying their congruity.
From Slate ● Dec. 1, 2016
In clear, declarative prose, it dips readers’ toes into stereotype threat and confirmation bias, role congruity theory, cortisol and stress studies and prospect theory.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 5, 2016
Conceptual congruity doesn’t matter much when you’re just trying to snag some cultural cachet with a decent party.
From The Verge ● Jan. 7, 2016
The eager haste of the explanation destroys the congruity of the sentence, but he does not mind that.
From The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon by Alexander Maclaren
“Jerusalem” is full of such local arcana; it also demonstrates Moore’s tendency to see deep congruities everywhere.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 8, 2016
Our Churchby Roger Scruton Because of these congruities, I find Scruton's latest book, a paean to Anglicanism, deeply irritating and unsatisfactory.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 19, 2013
In certain congruities of dark cloth, in the rigid perfection of his linen, in the symmetry of his glove with his hand, lay the secret of Mr. Brummell's miracles.
From The Works of Max Beerbohm by Sir Max Beerbohm
There is a saying reported of Zoroaster, and, coming from the deeps of fifty centuries, still authentic and intelligible, that "the congruities of material forms to the laws of the soul are divine allurements."
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860 by Various
And in proof of my earnest sympathies with him during the very unequal contest, I will console him with "proprieties," "congruities," "consistencies of figure," and "material images," enough.
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