mismatch

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A formative experience came in managing BPA’s trading floor in 2001 when the power market in California nearly collapsed after a flawed effort to create competition among power producers resulted in supply-demand mismatch.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

If that’s true, I have not heard him or a supporter address what would appear to be a treatment mismatch for the others, as well as a potential civil liberties breach for all of them.

From Slate • Jun. 3, 2026

The mismatch suggests that Wall Street expects there to be a real possibility of Fed interest-rate hikes, particularly with inflation moving away from the central bank’s 2% yearly target.

From MarketWatch • May 26, 2026

Their work shows that the long debated mismatch between theory and experiment was likely caused by limitations in earlier calculations rather than evidence of unknown physics.

From Science Daily • May 19, 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