discrepancy
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The experiments resolved the melting temperature discrepancy, but they produced a different answer to the question raised by the Sandia results.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026
That’s the third-largest discrepancy in the big leagues.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
That discrepancy has caused widespread frustration, with many New Yorkers accusing the city of taking a sloppy approach and lacking transparency about how they decided which properties were subject to the tax.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
“The discrepancy between the honorable conduct expected of federal prosecutors and DOJ’s tactics in this case is unsettling,” McElroy wrote.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026
This discrepancy between evolutionary success and individual suffering is perhaps the most important lesson we can draw from the Agricultural Revolution.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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Property, the largest concentration of global wealth, is overvalued by up to 50%, using price-to-affordability metrics, although there are significant locational discrepancies.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026
God forbid that comes true, but if it does, this record is proof that Madonna is her discrepancies: She is this, and she is also that.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026
According to the researchers, the discrepancies were even larger in some locations.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 18, 2026
Heather's family has seen first-hand that discrepancies exist between English health trusts too.
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2026
That accounts for some of the discrepancies that readers may note between this book’s dates and those quoted in some standard reference books on early food production.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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