mismatch

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

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

Ms. Atkinson’s lighthearted novel mines delicious humor from this mismatch of grizzled cynicism and national heritage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

Pooja Bhatt, an associate professor at OP Jindal Global University, says that mismatch is increasingly difficult to ignore.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

That’s because the opening phrase, at the age often, is attached to my father—an obvious mismatch.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

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

“We were in the flow, the ball was moving and we got mismatches that we like,” Musselman said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 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

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

Seeing Dodgers players wearing red gloves, mismatched undershirts, and other non-team colors bothers me more than it should.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2026

Many shared screenshots that appeared to show mismatched answer sheets and incorrect marking.

From BBC ● May 28, 2026

Even setting aside Max’s typically snide reaction to Becky’s attire—“You look like . . . a birthday cake”—this pair seems spectacularly mismatched.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 7, 2026

The shirt was worn-looking, with a mismatched button, but it wouldn’t cling, or give out too much information.

From "Maybe He Just Likes You" by Barbara Dee

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

Dear child! she wanted to help me,     I knew 'twas the best she could do;   But oh! what a botch she had made of it,     The gray mismatching the blue!

From The Spirit-Filled Life by John MacNeil