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mismatch

[mis-mach, mis-mach] / mɪsˈmætʃ, ˈmɪsˌmætʃ /


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The mismatch in priorities isn’t new, and the last attempt at hashing out differences over AI is a cautionary tale.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 18, 2026

The game should have been a mismatch, but what I missed is that the Rams might not have placed much importance in it.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 13, 2026

Ryan Garcia crushed Briton Conor Benn with a ruthless second-round stoppage to retain his WBC welterweight crown in a world title mismatch in Las Vegas.

From BBC Sep. 13, 2026

But the conflict is a mismatch, with the $31 trillion US economy roughly 13 times larger than Canada's, raising questions about the limits of Prime Minister Mark Carney's defiance.

From Barron's Sep. 9, 2026

Elizabeth and her friend are a total mismatch.

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan

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

“When you have 10 personnel and that many receivers that can catch the ball, it can create mismatches, and we play a lot of man, so who’s going to fold first?”

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 18, 2026

It omits adjustments for risk or maturity mismatches.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 14, 2026

Similarly, longtime HSI insiders cautioned that using the agency’s databases and tools to search these lists would yield mismatches and wildly inflated results.

From Salon Aug. 15, 2026

In the absence of money, the economy stagnates, degenerates and, finally, collapses because of massive mismatches of supply and demand aggregates and of the types of goods and services on offer and demanded.

From After the Rain : how the West lost the East by Samuel Vaknin

The film stars James Rottger and Elle Watson as Cameron and Eilidh - mismatched flatmates who face the prospect of parenthood after a one-night stand.

From BBC Sep. 13, 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

A movie pitch of the Adams-Jefferson relationship might go like this: Two mismatched American patriots collaborate on the Declaration of Independence, then get diplomatic jobs in Europe and become besties.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 2, 2026

She cocked her head to one side, as if curious about what sort of ostriches these odd-looking, mismatched creatures might be.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood

"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

Ms Angell did forensic work into the mismatching thread and bullet holes in Ms Bullwinkel's nurse's uniform.

From BBC Apr. 18, 2019

It's like mismatching anything else—gloves or stockings—and wearing the wrong ones together.

From Faith Gartney's Girlhood by A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train) Whitney




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