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This also has the benefit of side-stepping the genetic mismatch problem, which applies to the corals, not the symbionts.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

The job became a mismatch with her rapid rise, and while she was still booking the travel arrangements for her boss, she had a publicist who was booking hers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

The epistemic mismatch between her idea of what would transpire and the frat brothers’ is truly tragic.

From Slate ● Oct. 9, 2026

“Ms. Atkinson’s lighthearted novel,” Sam Sacks writes, “mines delicious humor from this mismatch of grizzled cynicism and national heritage.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

She was always a small woman, but her dialysis was forcing her to lose weight fast, and soon her short, gaunt frame was an almost comical mismatch with her husband’s bulk.

From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore

On several occasions, small mismatches between measurements and expectations have eventually revealed that scientists were missing something important about how nature works.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026

“For example, compaction summaries included instructions to invent missing historical data without disclosing it and to hide mismatches in source versions,” wrote OpenAI.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026

Since the public rolls don’t include voters’ unique identifiers, people at the lab also knew linking them to HSI’s data would produce mismatches — what the staffer called an “ungodly” number of false positives.

From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026

At institutional funds, by comparison, there aren’t frequent windows for investors to exit, which prevents mismatches between their assets and obligations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026

However, no changes have been made in this e-text for these mismatches.

From Adequate Preparation for the Teacher of Biological Sciences in Secondary Schools by James Daley McDonald

Millions of voters have also been flagged for additional scrutiny after the ECI used automated systems to detect what they described as "logical discrepancies", including mismatched names and inconsistencies in family details.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

Some grandparents are very attuned to the potential for mismatched expectations.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026

Though it is proving to be a mismatched series so far, England are building a well-balanced line-up under Brook's leadership and have barely broken sweat in notching a 2-0 lead.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

He was too tall, a bit clumsy, and he wore mismatched shoes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

From the bottom of the suitcase, Liz lifted a folded cloth with some very amateur-looking needlework on it— uneven stitches, mismatched colors, loose threads, snarls.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Retro-themed decor is in, with trees jam-packed full of bold, mismatching decorations, as more people try to recreate a festive season from their childhood.

From BBC ● Dec. 20, 2025

Among them facsimiles of relevant ephemera are bound in mismatching formats: foldout drawings, transparencies, die-cuttings and pamphlets whose archival relevance you must flip through to ascertain.

From New York Times ● Jan. 16, 2024

"We find that user engagement increases when the national headquarters lead the production of content and the local accounts follow either by tweeting to a matching or mismatching audience, depending on timing in the operation."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2023

Flowers that bloom in early balmy weather run the risk of mismatching with their primary pollinators—such as hummingbirds or bees—which can follow non-climate-dependent cues such as day length.

From Scientific American ● Mar. 22, 2023

I mark the ground in squares of one rod and plant in every other crossing, mismatching to make the trees zigzag.

From The Apple by Various