mismatch
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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
Ireland managed just 10 boundaries in their innings and, to highlight the mismatch in the teams, Bouchier struck nine alone in her knock.
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
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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 has the size and physicality of a tight end, which creates mismatches with smaller cornerbacks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 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
Asian countries are limited in how much U.S. energy they can process by infrastructure mismatches.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 25, 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
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
Servers emerge from the kitchen carrying mismatched plates of chilaquiles and, on weekends, bowls of hominy-packed, spicy menudo soup that’s spent at least six hours on the stove.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026
Many shared screenshots that appeared to show mismatched answer sheets and incorrect marking.
From BBC ● May 28, 2026
There were steps leading up to a loft area with floor seating where pillows of mismatched colors, patterns, and sizes surrounded a few short tables.
From "The First Rule of Punk" by Celia C. Pérez
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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
But if it should turn out that there is a mismatching, of the nature just described, the conditions can be adjusted if the right means are used.
From Sane Sex Life and Sane Sex Living Some Things That All Sane People Ought to Know About Sex Nature and Sex Functioning; Its Place in the Economy of Life, Its Proper Training and Righteous Exercise by H. W. (Harland William) Long