mismatch
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When there’s conflict, it’s usually because of a mismatch of expectations.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026
This mismatch is known as the matter-antimatter asymmetry problem.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026
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
Ryan Garcia crushed Briton Conor Benn with a ruthless second-round stoppage to retain his WBC welterweight crown in a world title mismatch in Las Vegas.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
The resulting mismatch is the cause of the apparent unpredictability.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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
“For example, compaction summaries included instructions to invent missing historical data without disclosing it and to hide mismatches in source versions,” wrote OpenAI.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026
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
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
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 James Daley McDonald
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
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
And he couldn't see the man's mismatched knee socks.
From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple
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
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