mismatch
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Phenological mismatch is when two organisms that are dependent upon each other appear at the wrong time.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026
This term has also revealed the profound philosophical mismatch between the court and the public.
From Slate ● Jul. 29, 2026
As your editorial notes, current levels lock homeowners in place, creating a mismatch problem.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
It could be the biggest mismatch the World Cup has ever seen.
From BBC ● Jul. 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
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
The first-round of the playoffs usually produces a bunch of mismatches that lack oomph.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 12, 2026
A key element of this achievement was the use of "quantum frequency converters," devices that adjust small frequency mismatches between photons.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 29, 2025
However, no changes have been made in this e-text for these mismatches.
From Adequate Preparation for the Teacher of Biological Sciences in Secondary Schools by McDonald, James Daley
Officials estimate about 5 ballots remain to be counted and 17,650 are waiting to cure a missing or mismatched signature.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 2026
Accuracy for the mismatched items dropped to nearly zero in some cases.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 10, 2026
Many shared screenshots that appeared to show mismatched answer sheets and incorrect marking.
From BBC ● May 28, 2026
The cold-storage industry is coping with mismatched supply and demand following a period of frenzied construction and leasing during the Covid-19 pandemic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026
Beauty-lanterns drift along streets paved with glistening stones, past mismatched shops painted in pastel shades and lined up like the frosted pastries in a bakery window.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
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 MacNeil, John
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