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Word: congruous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lifers, they are considered an automatic threat to society. Their conviction was not based on their own personal actions, but on their association with others who hold the similar views and have committed acts of violence as a result of those views. This type of ruling seems much more congruous with the actions of an Orwellian-type totalitarian state than with the proper proceedings of the American judicial system...

Author: By Melissa R. Moschella, | Title: Choosing Freedom of Speech | 3/3/1999 | See Source »

...couldn't even count on his music to be congruous with much he'd done before, either in tone or quality. He reveled in irresolution, letting himself drift with the fates -- or so it seemed. One of the many wonders of Across the Borderline is Nelson's paean to entropy, Still Is Still Moving to Me, which begins, "I swim like a fish in the sea all the time/ But if that's what it takes to be free I don't mind/ Still is still moving to me." But, as this album demonstrates, what might be running in place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spiritual Stocktaking | 5/17/1993 | See Source »

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