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discrepancy

[dih-skrep-uhn-see] / dɪˈskrɛp ən si /


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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

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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