mismatch

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A formative experience came in managing BPA’s trading floor in 2001 when the power market in California nearly collapsed after a flawed effort to create competition among power producers resulted in supply-demand mismatch.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

If that’s true, I have not heard him or a supporter address what would appear to be a treatment mismatch for the others, as well as a potential civil liberties breach for all of them.

From Slate • Jun. 3, 2026

That has been a tough business lately, thanks to a mismatch between costs and the rates managed care companies are allowed to charge states.

From Barron's • Jun. 2, 2026

The mismatch suggests that Wall Street expects there to be a real possibility of Fed interest-rate hikes, particularly with inflation moving away from the central bank’s 2% yearly target.

From MarketWatch • May 26, 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