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Recent Examples of mismatched
On a simple carpeted platform given the flavor of a town-council meeting by the scenic-design collective Dots (a lectern, a microphone, a crescent of mismatched wooden chairs), eight of the play’s nine actors face us, seated, as the show begins.
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Sara Holdren, Vulture, 6 Mar. 2025
Now that bickering duo is vying to take his place, with a mismatched pair of feds—an intense rookie (Alexandra Ruddy) and her legend-in-his-own-mind boss, played by Tim Baltz—tracking their every move.
—Judy Berman, TIME, 6 Mar. 2025
From mismatched poles and arms for streetlights to lapsed access agreements with a ditch company — and expired permits from Broomfield — progress on Dillon Pointe slowed to a crawl.
—John Aguilar, The Denver Post, 28 Feb. 2025
Fragile yes: Win-win in theory but with mismatched expectations.
—Zekeriya Polat, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
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Sara Holdren, Vulture, 6 Mar. 2025
Now that bickering duo is vying to take his place, with a mismatched pair of feds—an intense rookie (Alexandra Ruddy) and her legend-in-his-own-mind boss, played by Tim Baltz—tracking their every move.
—Judy Berman, TIME, 6 Mar. 2025
From mismatched poles and arms for streetlights to lapsed access agreements with a ditch company — and expired permits from Broomfield — progress on Dillon Pointe slowed to a crawl.
—John Aguilar, The Denver Post, 28 Feb. 2025
Fragile yes: Win-win in theory but with mismatched expectations.
—Zekeriya Polat, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mismatched
Adjective
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Zeldin’s attempt to engineer a sweeping rollback of environmental rules that will enable unfettered fossil fuel development, and do so with less regulation of harmful pollutants, is incompatible with Catholic social teaching and care for creation.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
24 Mar. 2025
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This resulted in redundant efforts, incompatible systems, and eventually, multiple project cancellations after millions were spent.—
Bernard Marr,
Forbes,
19 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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But without a strong messaging foundation, those pieces can feel scattered, inconsistent, or even contradictory.—
Rhea Wessel,
Forbes.com,
28 Mar. 2025
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His current form may be inconsistent at best, but Finau believes the best results of his career are still ahead of him.—
Paul Du Quenoy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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But Trump, from his first weeks in office, has instead threatened to render Congress almost irrelevant.—
David D. Kirkpatrick,
New Yorker,
31 Mar. 2025
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The constant pressure to fit into society’s molds has become irrelevant.—
Erin McGregor,
People.com,
28 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Which passport wallets are best? Passport wallets have long been viewed as somewhat of an extraneous travel accessory for years, but are steadily rising in their popularity among frequent flyers and travelers.—
BestReviews,
Chicago Tribune,
7 Apr. 2025
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So, in essence, all the extraneous information not required by the model is eliminated, allowing continuous computation of trajectories through the mental model space (either real or imagined) with unparalleled efficiency.—
Jason D. Greenblatt,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 Apr. 2025
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That was the site of its preseason test days, although that event was held in unseasonably cold weather, which means much of what the teams learned then may be inapplicable this coming weekend.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
7 Apr. 2025
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Yet those in power show little tolerance to law when open government, public records, national security and other laws are ignored or violated under a self-serving declaration that laws somehow are inapplicable to political leaders — applicable to others, just not to them.—
Lonnie Groot,
The Orlando Sentinel,
6 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Indeed, the excises were largely immaterial to the economic fortunes of manufacturers.—
Joseph Thorndike,
Forbes,
3 Sep. 2024
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Whether the ball struck by Shohei Ohtani would have cleared the right-field wall at the Tokyo Dome if some fans hadn’t reached over the railing is immaterial.—
Iliana Limón Romero,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The self-deportation of a University of Florida student reveals the new reality for many immigrants — any brush with the law can set off a chain of unfortunate events.—
Clara-Sophia Daly,
Miami Herald,
10 Apr. 2025
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This ancestor of mine was born at a good time for ornate garments, but at an unfortunate time and place for tuberculosis.—
Denise Snodell,
Kansas City Star,
9 Apr. 2025
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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.—
Wanjiru Njoya,
Orange County Register,
13 Feb. 2024
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The experiment was a flop, the living arrangements spare, the neighbors uncongenial, and the couple was in debt.—
Brenda Wineapple,
The New York Review of Books,
19 Oct. 2022
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