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Recent Examples of mismatched
Rather, his dream dissipated into a torrent of mismatched expectations, bad luck, and fear that the project might really be cursed by an unseen force.
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Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 24 Oct. 2025
Glassware Glassware, even mismatched pieces, is an excellent second-hand buy.
—Nicole Letts, Southern Living, 9 Oct. 2025
Domestic life takes a turn for the perfectly mismatched pair, as their day-to-day turns into a razor-sharp battle for power.
—Jake Kanter, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2025
He's surrounded by young men with their own problems and complications, from physically mismatched twins trying to live up to family expectations to romantic newlywed to the same old style of bully he's met before.
—Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 8 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mismatched
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But her vote is incompatible with that identity.—
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Trump’s economic management combines two theoretically incompatible tendencies.—
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The company says the system aims to tackle persistent challenges in the hospitality industry, including labor shortages, inconsistent drink quality, and long service times.—
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In some cases, CBS News ran images through AI detection tools, which can be inconsistent or inaccurate but can still help flag possibly manipulated content.—
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Sure, pundits and Twitter philosophers love to portray bowl games as irrelevant relics of the past that nobody cares about anymore.—
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The characters are lying, to themselves and to each other, but the role of the audience in believing or not believing their lies is totally irrelevant.—
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Since both of those earlier years were influenced by a strong El Niño event, this one will have the dubious distinction of being the hottest without such an extraneous force.—
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Tech and data aren’t extraneous.—
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In 2023, the Supreme Court declared the bill inapplicable.—
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Here are the kicking motion rules, which the NHL deemed inapplicable given their determination that Hellebuyck propelled the puck into his own net.—
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The fact Mahomes got hurt is immaterial to the fact the Chiefs were always bound to fall.—
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Those details are immaterial now.—
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Their late concession of the winning penalty to Morgan Gibbs-White, above, was unfortunate.—
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Many unfortunate events were blamed on poison—the unexpected death of an enslaver or a slave, a spate of local deaths due to a virus or other disease, or problems on the plantation such as ill livestock or bad harvests.—
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Short of calling an exterminator, experts suggest the following ways to rid a car, truck or SUV of rodents: One way is to simply make the vehicle uncongenial.—
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Bauer attributes the poverty of the third world to cultural values inimical to productivity: In much of the Third World the political, social, and personal determinants of economic performance are often uncongenial to economic development.—
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“Mismatched.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mismatched. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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