mismatched

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Recent Examples of mismatched The nine-time Tony Award winner follows the adventures of a mismatched pair of missionaries sent halfway across the world to spread the Good Word. Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 21 Feb. 2025 Look for mismatched plates and teacups to create a more effortless and whimsical look. Claire Hoppe Norgaard, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Feb. 2025 Some stars have no problem showing up with flat hair and mismatched looks—but best believe Miley will never be one of the stars. Kleigh Balugo, StyleCaster, 2 Feb. 2025 The mismatched mattresses are occupied by men, women, and children – all migrants who intended to reach the United States but haven’t completed their journey. Abel Alvarado, CNN, 3 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for mismatched
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mismatched
Adjective
  • Felix Pardo: Unbridled and incompatible development has altered every phase of life in Coral Gables.
    Miami Herald Staff, Miami Herald, 12 Mar. 2025
  • Under state law, village trustee and school board member are considered incompatible offices, the Homer Glen electoral board ruled.
    Olivia Stevens, Chicago Tribune, 5 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • However, the Jets’ defense was inconsistent after Robert Saleh’s firing following a 2-3 start.
    Antwan Staley, New York Daily News, 16 Mar. 2025
  • But uneven rain patterns across the state mean the wildflower situation will be inconsistent.
    Kevinisha Walker, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The weather’s getting warmer in Montreal, playoff weather, a time of year this group is used to looking for external, irrelevant sources of motivation to play out the string.
    Arpon Basu, The Athletic, 16 Mar. 2025
  • Too long to weed through red herrings and convolutions in the mystery that eventually border on irrelevant.
    Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • While the series may ultimately feel extraneous to anyone already well-aware of terms like cyberbullying and the manosphere, its technical scope is impressive and purposeful, while its persistent empathy helps the ending feel more like a consoling hug than an outraged admonishment.
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 13 Mar. 2025
  • Not even Salley’s plastic surgeon, who is removing both of her breast implants as well as her extraneous e, could fix this mess.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • These are responses that may sound correct at first, but turn out to be wrong (like your crazy uncle’s Thanksgiving table advice), often due to inapplicable or inaccurate information being used to train the models.
    Dean DeBiase, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024
  • Pavia could argue Bewley is inapplicable since while the Bewley brothers were paid to play in OTE, there is no comparable point for Pavia.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 24 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • For the years ended December 31, 2024, and 2023, the amounts received were immaterial.
    Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2025
  • Meanwhile, forwards Matthew Tkachuk and Auston Matthews sat out the team’s otherwise immaterial 2-1 loss to Sweden out of an abundance of caution, and Brady Tkachuk left the game in the middle of the first period after crashing into the cage.
    Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 19 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • With a 6-5 record in 11 games post-All Star Weekend (including 2-3 in their last five), Tom Thibodeau's Knicks have been in a bit of a rut that began before Brunson's unfortunate injury.
    Mark Davis, Newsweek, 15 Mar. 2025
  • Thankfully on one unfortunate visit Puligny had a town cooperative with plenty of wine to drink and a phone number for a man with a van to return us and our bicycles to our hotel in Beaune.
    Mike DeSimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 14 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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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“Mismatched.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mismatched. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.

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