incompatible

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Washington and Tehran have a history of making negotiations happen in the face of seemingly incompatible demands by quietly shelving some of the most contentious points.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026

Jesse and I had great chemistry but were ultimately incompatible.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2026

"If left unchecked," he said, this mismanagement "could create a culture incompatible with human spaceflight."

From Barron's • Feb. 19, 2026

Researchers at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at Heidelberg University created this framework to explain how quasiparticles form and to link two quantum states that were previously thought to be incompatible.

From Science Daily • Feb. 8, 2026

That issue, of course, was slavery, which was clearly incompatible with the principles of the American Revolution, no matter what version one championed.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis