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mismatch

[mis-mach, mis-mach] / mɪsˈmætʃ, ˈmɪsˌmætʃ /


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To some in Washington, that mismatch is unlikely to be negotiated away.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 18, 2026

The game should have been a mismatch, but what I missed is that the Rams might not have placed much importance in it.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 13, 2026

But the conflict is a mismatch, with the $31 trillion US economy roughly 13 times larger than Canada's, raising questions about the limits of Prime Minister Mark Carney's defiance.

From Barron's Sep. 9, 2026

Bishop says the study, published in Evolution Letters, explores a growing mismatch between evolutionary theory and what researchers are observing in nature.

From Science Daily Sep. 4, 2026

The resulting mismatch is the cause of the apparent unpredictability.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking

“When you have 10 personnel and that many receivers that can catch the ball, it can create mismatches, and we play a lot of man, so who’s going to fold first?”

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 18, 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

Semiconductor stocks have historically been cyclical, experiencing boom-and-bust phases from supply-demand mismatches.

From MarketWatch Apr. 29, 2026

Asian countries are limited in how much U.S. energy they can process by infrastructure mismatches.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 25, 2026

This longing for sincere souls, too, it may well have been which wrung from Clotilda the assertion, that there were mismatches only between souls, not between ranks.

From Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. II A Biography by Jean Paul

The film stars James Rottger and Elle Watson as Cameron and Eilidh - mismatched flatmates who face the prospect of parenthood after a one-night stand.

From BBC Sep. 13, 2026

The film hits its predictable highs and lows as the mismatched Owen and Emily get closer and romantic complications mount.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 28, 2026

What follows — the drained reserves, the mismatched oil, the strained grid and the price we all pay — is the fallout.

From MarketWatch Jul. 21, 2026

Servers emerge from the kitchen carrying mismatched plates of chilaquiles and, on weekends, bowls of hominy-packed, spicy menudo soup that’s spent at least six hours on the stove.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 11, 2026

She cocked her head to one side, as if curious about what sort of ostriches these odd-looking, mismatched creatures might be.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood

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

“The mismatching of financial market pricing and economic reality is both stark and stretched,” Bennett said.

From Seattle Times Feb. 6, 2023

But if it should turn out that there is a mismatching, of the nature just described, the conditions can be adjusted if the right means are used.

From Sane Sex Life and Sane Sex Living Some Things That All Sane People Ought to Know About Sex Nature and Sex Functioning; Its Place in the Economy of Life, Its Proper Training and Righteous Exercise by H. W. (Harland William) Long




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