discrepant

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To help him analyze the precious score’s two discrepant versions, Bern enlists the wisecracking, decoding mastermind Eboni Washington, who digitizes and cross-analyzes all the musical data.

From Washington Post • Apr. 20, 2023

And then, even more serious, is that the result is not only discrepant with theoretical calculations but also with previous experimental measurements.

From Scientific American • May 11, 2022

The lab’s accreditation agency and the Forensic Investigation Council, an independent agency that oversees Washington’s forensic lab operations and policies, also have been kept apprised of discrepant results, Loftis added.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 25, 2021

And it prods researchers to discount discrepant findings.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 2, 2015

And this discrepant nature and varying effect may be easily seen in certain parts of almost any round loadstone.

From On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments by Gilbert, William