mismatched
Example Sentences
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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 visual graphic, which was widely circulated online, was mismatched with the table of results, thus implicating both of our formulas,” Bauer said.
From Salon • Mar. 20, 2026
In September, auditors found that California was not in compliance with federal rules and later ordered the state to revoke more than 17,000 licenses due to the mismatched expiration dates.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2026
As a result, cutting rates while shrinking the balance sheet are not just mismatched in how they affect financial conditions, but also in the time frames over which they work.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 9, 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
