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congruity

[kuhn-groo-i-tee, kon-, kuhng-, kong-] / kənˈgru ɪ ti, kɒn-, kəŋ-, kɒŋ- /


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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

Gladys bit her tongue, and answered shortly that she didn't herself perceive any special natural congruity about the match, but perhaps her mother was better informed on the subject.

From Strange Stories by Grant Allen

“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 Edward J. Quigley

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

Is not the costume of today, with its subtlety and sombre restraint, its quiet congruities of black and white and grey, supremely apt a medium for the expression of modern emotion and modern thought?

From The Works of Max Beerbohm by Sir Max Beerbohm


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