mismatch
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"We were finding a mismatch between the temperature of the tropical Pacific and the impacts," said Becker about the old index.
From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026
The epistemic mismatch between her idea of what would transpire and the frat brothers’ is truly tragic.
From Slate ● Oct. 9, 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
The resulting mismatch is the cause of the apparent unpredictability.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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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
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 added that supply and demand mismatches will strengthen the company’s pricing model and make it more sustainable.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
At institutional funds, by comparison, there aren’t frequent windows for investors to exit, which prevents mismatches between their assets and obligations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 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 pitfalls of online dating, including awkwardness, mismatched expectations and even ghosting, can hamper friend searches, too.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
My favorite trick for making mismatched serving pieces look intentional is to keep them loosely within one color story.
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026
Millions of voters have also been flagged for additional scrutiny after the ECI used automated systems to detect what they described as "logical discrepancies", including mismatched names and inconsistencies in family details.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
Some grandparents are very attuned to the potential for mismatched expectations.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026
Then they all gathered around their small table with its mismatched chairs.
From "Millionaires for the Month" by Stacey McAnulty
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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
I mark the ground in squares of one rod and plant in every other crossing, mismatching to make the trees zigzag.
From The Apple by Various
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