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Recent Examples of mismatched
The last are easy to spot even without mismatched eyes.
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Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 May 2026
Use a matching set or go for a charming, mismatched look.
—Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 18 May 2026
Drivers can reduce their risk by comparing pumps for mismatched parts, using pumps near the store, and choosing tap-to-pay, mobile wallets, or credit cards instead of debit cards when possible.
—Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 16 May 2026
The board then divided into two-person bipartisan teams to review 28 ballots with mismatched signatures where voters sent in affidavits to compare the signatures.
—Alexandra Kukulka, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2026
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Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 May 2026
Use a matching set or go for a charming, mismatched look.
—Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 18 May 2026
Drivers can reduce their risk by comparing pumps for mismatched parts, using pumps near the store, and choosing tap-to-pay, mobile wallets, or credit cards instead of debit cards when possible.
—Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 16 May 2026
The board then divided into two-person bipartisan teams to review 28 ballots with mismatched signatures where voters sent in affidavits to compare the signatures.
—Alexandra Kukulka, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mismatched
Adjective
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Some of the world’s largest fertilizer producers operate across jurisdictions increasingly divided by incompatible sanctions regimes.—
Ariel Cohen,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2026
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The Order is inconsistent with a legitimate exercise of investigative authority and is plainly incompatible with the First Amendment.—
Todd Spangler,
Variety,
28 May 2026
Adjective
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Your first warning is when local news, embassy alerts, and travel communications become inconsistent or censored, situational awareness is compromised.—
Christopher Elliott,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2026
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AltaMed doctors and medical professionals traded stethoscopes for fliers advertising voting sites and canvassed neighborhoods in Santa Ana ahead of the June 2 primary on Tuesday to connect with residents who had been diagnosed as low-propensity or inconsistent voters.—
Kaitlyn Schallhorn,
Oc Register,
29 May 2026
Adjective
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Chase is irrelevant and swinging at the right pitch is irrelevant.—
Sahadev Sharma,
New York Times,
1 June 2026
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Every second an irrelevant ad runs on DOOH inventory is lost revenue.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2026
Adjective
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Someone needs to tell both Salley and her extraneous E to get the hell off my imaginary husband.—
Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
3 June 2026
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Natalie asks after her daughter fires off a string of words punctuated by extraneous vowels.—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
21 May 2026
Adjective
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In any case, the globin inclusion was wildly inapplicable.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
7 May 2026
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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.—
Murat Ates,
New York Times,
12 May 2025
Adjective
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The challenge was to create something that feels almost immaterial, while still making a real shoe.—
Miles Socha,
Footwear News,
26 May 2026
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Portofiro and the baroque universe surrounding it—communists on-world, techno-fascists offplanet, and all manner of augmentoids and spooks in the immaterial planes between—can make for a dizzying read.—
Alex James Kane,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2026
Adjective
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The timing is particularly unfortunate given the matchup awaiting the Knicks.—
Kristian Winfield,
New York Daily News,
29 May 2026
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While loud sounds won’t cause flat cakes, there are reasons for this unfortunate outcome.—
BestReviews,
Chicago Tribune,
29 May 2026
Adjective
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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.—
Jim Gorzelany,
Forbes.com,
9 May 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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“Mismatched.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mismatched. Accessed 3 Jun. 2026.
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