mismatch
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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
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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
“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
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"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