incommensurate

Example Sentences

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Hirers across industries describe a recurring scenario: A candidate in their 20s or early 30s applies for a position and requests compensation and benefits incommensurate with experience.

From Seattle Times

As long ago as 2011, the WHO’s report on the H1N1 influenza pandemic concluded that the agency’s budget is “wholly incommensurate” with its global responsibilities.

From Scientific American

Even among those in the novel who have not suffered strokes, language at times is incommensurate with the job it is expected to perform.

From Washington Post

“He sought unprecedented relief, and his team pressed the case in a slapdash manner incommensurate with the gravity of the subject matter.”

From Seattle Times

That didn’t translate into her work being kind — a word that’s almost comically incommensurate with her acerbic narrative voice, the performative “I” she would insert into her essays and profiles.

From New York Times