Sentence examples for incommensurate from inspiring English sources

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incommensurate

adjective

Out of proportion (in size, degree or extent) with something else

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And General Pinochet's claim to have stood selflessly for the former was tarnished when it emerged that he had amassed a fortune incommensurate with his salary.

Suffice to say what we all know: the fear of flying is incommensurate with its risk.

A shift in the paradigm alters the fundamental concepts underlying research and inspires new standards of evidence, new research techniques, and new pathways of theory and experiment that are radically incommensurate with the old ones.

The long-running Chinese, Chaldean, and Mayan calendars were attempts to reconcile these repetitive but incommensurate movements.

For this reason, its importance seems to me incommensurate with its size and even its readership.

I've never yet let go of zero, the multiplier best employed on incommensurate sums, either one on top a lovelier ratio, but when divided through becomes a number that can't compute but instead goes on, in proof, diminished by each digit that it spews.

The dream had become a nightmare so unspeakable, so incommensurate with typical human experience, that Deraniyagala would later wonder what she had done to doom herself to such a fate.

The recruitment of young informants often involves risks that are incommensurate with the charges that they are facing.

These behind-the-scenes stories were several degrees more interesting than the monologues and celebrity patter that went on in front of the camera — the drama produced by the personalities was mostly incommensurate with the banality of their profession.

Trump's efforts to bully Fox into excluding a journalist he doesn't like — or, rather, appears to loathe with a venom that is glaringly incommensurate with anything that Kelly has said or done — are quite reprehensible.

As with Shakespeare, the magnitude of the achievement is incommensurate with the life that produced it.

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