mismatch

This was an article about knitting, and this mismatch was immediately called out.

From Slate ● Oct. 11, 2026

The current variant, H3N2 subclade K, appears similar to last year’s strain and is included in this year’s vaccine, reducing concern about a major mismatch between the vaccine and the flu strain, Chin-Hong said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

The bigger challenge, though, was a mismatch between how Oura sees itself and how prospective investors saw it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Motion sickness is caused by "a mismatch in sensory cues," Hac says.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

That’s because the opening phrase, at the age often, is attached to my father—an obvious mismatch.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

On several occasions, small mismatches between measurements and expectations have eventually revealed that scientists were missing something important about how nature works.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026

“For example, compaction summaries included instructions to invent missing historical data without disclosing it and to hide mismatches in source versions,” wrote OpenAI.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 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

One of the Germans was a diminutive man in mismatched clothing and with a patch over his right eye.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

Though it is proving to be a mismatched series so far, England are building a well-balanced line-up under Brook's leadership and have barely broken sweat in notching a 2-0 lead.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 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

Marco’s flat was once plain and spare but now it is crowded with an assortment of mismatched furniture.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

Retro-themed decor is in, with trees jam-packed full of bold, mismatching decorations, as more people try to recreate a festive season from their childhood.

From BBC ● Dec. 20, 2025

"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

I mark the ground in squares of one rod and plant in every other crossing, mismatching to make the trees zigzag.

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