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They linked this effect to prediction error, which occurs when there is a mismatch between what someone expects and what actually happens.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 18, 2026

That mismatch may be a warning sign, since massive AI capex could put downward pressure on valuations if investors think that the spending is consuming too much cash without generating enough returns.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026

“It also helps reduce the mismatch between pricing and prevailing physical-market conditions.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

This term has also revealed the profound philosophical mismatch between the court and the public.

From Slate ● Jul. 29, 2026

She was always a small woman, but her dialysis was forcing her to lose weight fast, and soon her short, gaunt frame was an almost comical mismatch with her husband’s bulk.

From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore

Similarly, longtime HSI insiders cautioned that using the agency’s databases and tools to search these lists would yield mismatches and wildly inflated results.

From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026

He has the size and physicality of a tight end, which creates mismatches with smaller cornerbacks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

Seasonality, demand patterns, refining mismatches and refinery closures, along with the push and pull of economics, also factor into the price.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 29, 2026

British heavyweight Anthony Joshua needed six rounds to stop boxing novice Jake Paul, who spent much of the contest in survival mode in one of the most striking mismatches in the sport's history.

From BBC ● Dec. 20, 2025

The economy, caught between two systems, is suffering from even greater mismatches between what is being produced and what would serve the best interests of enterprises and households.

From The 1991 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

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

Officials estimate about 5 ballots remain to be counted and 17,650 are waiting to cure a missing or mismatched signature.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 2026

Accuracy for the mismatched items dropped to nearly zero in some cases.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 10, 2026

Its officers found a lack of basic bookkeeping records and mismatched information.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026

Before that the gym here had been an old, dingy room, with a handful of mismatched dumbbells and decaying equipment that looked like it was made about a year after the wheel had been invented.

From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott

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

Dear child! she wanted to help me,     I knew 'twas the best she could do;   But oh! what a botch she had made of it,     The gray mismatching the blue!

From The Spirit-Filled Life by John MacNeil