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
Is it possible for the two to exist in congruity?
From The Guardian ● Sep. 4, 2017
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
Again, we judge of what is probable or improbable, credible or incredible, mainly by its congruity with our previous belief.
From The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I by Dods, Marcus
“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
The old writers on liturgy loved to dwell on pious congruities and parallelisms.
From The Divine Office by Quigley, Edward J.
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
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 Beerbohm, Max, Sir
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