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incommensurable

adjective as in incommensurate

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Over and over, videos emerged, revealing how often police narratives were incommensurable with what actually happened.

It would be naive not to acknowledge that there is an incommensurable issue at the base of all of this.

In fact, no matter how tiny you make the bits, it is impossible to choose a common yardstick that will measure both the side and the diagonal perfectly: the diagonal is incommensurable with the side.

As a consequence of the vanishing point, artists found themselves living simultaneously in two incommensurable worlds.

As the late philosopher Lawrence Becker proclaimed, “autonomous human lives have a dignity that is immeasurable, incommensurable, infinite, beyond price.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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