mismatch
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To explore this nutritional mismatch, researchers compared the essential amino acid composition of honeybee tissues with pollen collected from 99 UK flowering plant species representing 26 plant families.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026
This may point to a mismatch where graduates aren’t building experience in the industries suited to their skills or desires.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026
“It also helps reduce the mismatch between pricing and prevailing physical-market conditions.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
This term has also revealed the profound philosophical mismatch between the court and the public.
From Slate ● Jul. 29, 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
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
He added that supply and demand mismatches will strengthen the company’s pricing model and make it more sustainable.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
If they took on some of the ball-carrying burden, could it allow Earl to drift into dangerous wider areas where his pace and power can create mismatches?
From BBC ● Mar. 9, 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
The economy, caught between two systems, is suffering from even greater mismatches between what is being produced and what would serve the best interests of enterprises and households.
From The 1991 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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
The challenge became even more difficult when matching and mismatched color words appeared together in the same list.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 10, 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
Bob Mac Leod had spent 29 years living with a secondary bathroom that he described as being in decent shape, despite its dated tile and mismatched floor and wall colors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026
The guy who normally lived there was a University of Chicago law student and he’d furnished it like any good student would, with mismatched garage-sale finds.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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
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