incommensurable

Example Sentences

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

From Washington Post

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

From Scientific American

He actually comes to the conclusion that the new view is incommensurable with the old one.

From Salon

Rawaa Nancy Albilal, president and chief executive of the Support Center, said that travel loans put refugee families under incommensurable stress.

From New York Times

The great Wilhelm stories kept coming, year after year, in and out of the "Orbit" anthologies, and they were always haunting, hypnotic, incommensurable and strange.

From Los Angeles Times