How to Use discrepancy in a Sentence

discrepancy

noun

• There were discrepancies between their accounts of the accident.
• Discrepancies in the firm's financial statements led to an investigation.
• Why the difference? Why are some individuals so outwardly altered by time and others not? Or, in other words, why is there often a discrepancy between chronological age and biological age?
  — Time, 17 Oct. 2005
• The reason for the discrepancy has to do with the date of death.
  — Sarah Volpenhein, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 Dec. 2021
• The changes smooth out some of the discrepancies in No.
  — Jeremy Woo, SI.com, 28 Sep. 2017
• Your movie dealt with the discrepancy between the salary of the CEO and the salary of the park employees.
  — Belinda Luscombe, Time, 23 Nov. 2022
• Last year in an effort to close the pay gap, the guild shared the pay scales to highlight the discrepancies.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 6 Mar. 2024
• The rest of the price discrepancy comes from the emergency room fees.
  — New York Times, 30 Mar. 2021
• To the eye, there hasn’t ever been this wide of a discrepancy between the two.
  — Dane Stangler, Forbes, 4 May 2023
• The discrepancies in the lower house are not quite as bad.
  — The Economist, 14 Nov. 2019
• This discrepancy stems from the fact that hunters tend to see more deer when cold fronts hit.
  — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 2 Nov. 2023
• The discrepancy seems to be in the stores’ sizes, employees say.
  — Shwanika Narayan, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 May 2021
• Once the 3-point discrepancy narrowed, the Jayhawks were able to take control of the game.
  — Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 17 Feb. 2024
• But there's one bright spot in this murky mess of discrepancies.
  — Krystin Arneson, Glamour, 16 May 2018
• Now, there’s a discrepancy on the amount of the six-figure wager.
  — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 16 Aug. 2024
• Both were upset at the discrepancy in fouls and free throws.
  — George Diaz, OrlandoSentinel.com, 6 Feb. 2018
• Iwamoto was single at the time and was ready to leave her big law firm job over the wage discrepancy.
  — Saige Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Dec. 2021
• The discrepancy may boil down to use patterns, the study suggests.
  — Jamie Ducharme, Time, 13 Aug. 2019
• What’s the discrepancy between the best- and worst-case models?
  — Jill Kiedaisch, Popular Mechanics, 27 Feb. 2019
• Some of the discrepancy between the local and state death count comes down to this delay.
  — Brian Chasnoff, ExpressNews.com, 4 Aug. 2020
• The foul discrepancy was a talking point after the game.
  — Kyle Brown, The Enquirer, 12 Mar. 2023
• That kind of depth discrepancy can play a factor in these games.
  — Arkansas Online, 17 Sep. 2022
• But Kramer thinks that even with the rules in place, there is a discrepancy between what is allowed and what is safe.
  — oregonlive, 3 Mar. 2021
• That kind of discrepancy is where these systems hope to find their sweet spot.
  — Dina Fine Maron, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2017
• The first is that there is not really a discrepancy at all.
  — The Economist, 13 June 2019
• The lawsuit cites this discrepancy in the plans, among others.
  — Craig R. McCoy, Philly.com, 15 June 2018
• That discrepancy, like much else in the case, remains untested in the courtroom.
  — al, 23 Mar. 2021
• This could help iron out any discrepancies if something were to go wrong.
  — Nathan Bachrach, Cincinnati.com, 9 May 2018
• This discrepancy correlates with the idea that bettors are attempting to influence the public perception of the presidential race, Bonier said.
  — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2024
• Their euphoria over the pending sale is short-lived, though, after an anonymous caller demands millions to stay quiet about a discrepancy in the software’s accuracy, which shows greater likelihood that the software will misidentify people of color.
  — Katie Campione, Deadline, 22 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024