mismatch
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The job became a mismatch with her rapid rise, and while she was still booking the travel arrangements for her boss, she had a publicist who was booking hers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
The epistemic mismatch between her idea of what would transpire and the frat brothers’ is truly tragic.
From Slate ● Oct. 9, 2026
Motion sickness is caused by "a mismatch in sensory cues," Hac says.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
When there’s conflict, it’s usually because of a mismatch of expectations.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 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
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
It omits adjustments for risk or maturity mismatches.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
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
Postal Service records and mismatches render a voter inactive and unable to vote until they provide adequate information.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 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
Fairford has become the latest example of asymmetric warfare, where two sides square off with mismatched military power.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
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
Everything else—the gateleg table they’d painted blue, the mismatched chairs, Pearl’s bed and Mia’s mattress and the tussock of pillows they’d called a couch—would be left behind.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
Retro-themed decor is in, with trees jam-packed full of bold, mismatching decorations, as more people try to recreate a festive season from their childhood.
From BBC ● Dec. 20, 2025
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
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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