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congruent

[kong-groo-uhnt, kuhn-groo-, kuhng-] / ˈkɒŋ gru ənt, kənˈgru-, kəŋ- /


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“Sometimes,” Mr. Byrne said, “it takes a naive foreigner to appreciate what people who live in a country don’t realize they have”—a sentiment congruent with his advice to think across disciplines.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

“Starving, to me, started to feel like an economic choice that just became congruent with those aesthetic and obsessive choices around food,” she explained.

From Slate ● Apr. 19, 2026

“The Olympics and the Paralympics are truly becoming this concurrent and congruent movement which reflects the times that we’re in,” Hill said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2025

"It feels extremely congruent with the person she is in life," Tyler said.

From BBC ● Jan. 14, 2025

There was no denying Jenkin’s inescapable logic: to salvage Darwin’s theory of evolution, he needed a congruent theory of heredity.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee


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