discrepancy
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That’s the third-largest discrepancy in the big leagues.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 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
That will eliminate some of the unusual discrepancy that has opened up between the PCE rate and the better-known consumer-price index.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
But after hard work over the weekend Russell made significant inroads into that issue, and Mercedes admitted they were still seeing a straight-line discrepancy that they could not yet explain.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 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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This may account for the discrepancies between data shared by Goepfert and SentimenTrader.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
But this online data also shows discrepancies, with a gap of 20,000 between the lowest and highest estimates of missing people.
From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 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
In the case of Google’s invoice-validation agent, the company says the system is working so well that there is a backlog of flagged discrepancies that the operations team needs to take to suppliers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026
Physically, there was very little indication that anything was happening at all—they were too clever for that—but even the tiny discrepancies that squeaked through their guard I met with a kind of willful blindness.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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