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

That has been a tough business lately, thanks to a mismatch between costs and the rates managed care companies are allowed to charge states.

From Barron's • Jun. 2, 2026

However, those materials often introduce performance limitations or defects that create a mismatch with the silicon transistors in the bottom layer.

From Science Daily • May 30, 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