mismatch

Example Sentences

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Most teenagers already start the week short on sleep, and the ongoing mismatch between their biological rhythms and early school schedules causes sleep deprivation to accumulate over several days.

From Science Daily

If they took on some of the ball-carrying burden, could it allow Earl to drift into dangerous wider areas where his pace and power can create mismatches?

From BBC

The extent of that mismatch has surprised me, four days on from the Spring Statement and a week into this conflict.

From BBC

“Without it, there would be a structural mismatch between investor capital and the expected duration of the private credit loans in which Hlend invests.”

From The Wall Street Journal

It's an odd mismatch, fed by the star's lyrics, which find him in an unsettled state of mind.

From BBC