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Recent Examples of mismatched
Periodically, Bhasin interrupted the sounds of birds, rain, and jungle life to offer encouraging words to his audience—a small group, nestled on mismatched sofas and chairs, and a couple who’d wandered in for some soup.
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Patricia Marx,
New Yorker,
15 June 2026
However, mismatched behavior, awkward movements, or an overly competitive attitude can quickly frustrate users and reduce engagement during interactions.
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Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
12 June 2026
Communicating this will help eliminate mismatched expectations and plans.
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Brittney Melton,
NPR,
11 June 2026
In a familiar trend, that means Californians could wait weeks for final election results, as election workers process mailed ballots and cure mismatched or missing signatures.
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Grant Stringer,
Mercury News,
1 June 2026
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Patricia Marx,
New Yorker,
15 June 2026
However, mismatched behavior, awkward movements, or an overly competitive attitude can quickly frustrate users and reduce engagement during interactions.
—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
12 June 2026
Communicating this will help eliminate mismatched expectations and plans.
—
Brittney Melton,
NPR,
11 June 2026
In a familiar trend, that means Californians could wait weeks for final election results, as election workers process mailed ballots and cure mismatched or missing signatures.
—
Grant Stringer,
Mercury News,
1 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for mismatched
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mismatched
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During the September 11 attacks, first responders from different agencies couldn't communicate with each other because their radio systems ran on incompatible frequencies and proprietary networks.
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That has raised concerns that the next era of wireless communications—headlined by 6G and Wi-Fi 8—will result in the world’s three largest economic blocs adopting three incompatible wireless spectrum models.
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Avoid abrupt temperature changes, frequent relocation, and inconsistent watering.
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Broadcasters and platforms needed reliable ways to deliver streams to millions of viewers across inconsistent internet connections.
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Without ownership, documentation becomes a museum exhibit that may be informative but irrelevant.
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No detail, no matter how incomplete or far-fetched, was irrelevant to their search.
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Still, Copilot is going through a reset, with Andreou eliminating extraneous versions of the AI tool and merging the teams that focused on consumer and enterprise versions of the product.
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The Invite should, in a perfect world, relegate that extraneous stuff to the back pages.
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In a recent conversation with Peter Diamandis, an entrepreneur and executive chairman of the XPrize Foundation, Musk fleshed out his moonshot visions for the future, which have previously included work being completely optional and retirement becoming inapplicable.
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Your business might not have branches, but that doesn’t mean that this strategy is inapplicable.
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The money, in Gupta’s view, is immaterial.
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The fact that it was conceived without thought and for decades was produced and consumed without thought is immaterial.
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As attendees were escorted out of the Great American State Fair on Sunday because of inclement weather, guests noticed an unfortunate typo displayed on a digital billboard at the National Mall.
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They should be trained not to ask a bunch of questions about the medical condition, express doubt, comment that the timing is unfortunate or share private information with co-workers.
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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 7 Jul. 2026.
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