discrepancy
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According to Gallardo, this discrepancy points toward two dramatically different possibilities.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 2026
Officials contend the discrepancy between the computer count and the paper tally is “a good deed that went punished” — the result of exhausted officials being handed an extra-credit project they couldn’t quite execute.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
“The discrepancy between the honorable conduct expected of federal prosecutors and DOJ’s tactics in this case is unsettling,” McElroy wrote.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026
But after hard work over the weekend Russell made significant inroads into that issue, and Mercedes admitted they were still seeing a straight-line discrepancy that they could not yet explain.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
It was an eighth-grade boy who pointed out the discrepancy during a school visit some time after Totally Joe was published in 2005.
From "The Misfits" by James Howe
This may account for the discrepancies between data shared by Goepfert and SentimenTrader.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
But this online data also shows discrepancies, with a gap of 20,000 between the lowest and highest estimates of missing people.
From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026
God forbid that comes true, but if it does, this record is proof that Madonna is her discrepancies: She is this, and she is also that.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026
These hidden features may help explain discrepancies that have puzzled researchers studying dinosaur growth.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 22, 2026
However, the existence of dark matter is widely accepted because it explains the discrepancies found between the mass of large astronomical objects and their gravitational effect.
From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson
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