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Recent Examples of mismatched
The answer to all these questions is My Lady Jane, which blends together what should be a hodgepodge of mismatched elements into a wildly entertaining historical romance/fantasy/comedy/action chimera.
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Matt Kamen, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2024
The list only covered ballots with mismatched signatures; a completely different process is required for ballots that were not signed at all.
—Arlyssa D. Becenti, The Arizona Republic, 27 Nov. 2024
The Bulls are attempting to build an offense on a simple foundation — get downhill, force the defense to collapse, kick the ball out and feed off the mismatched rotations.
—Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 13 Nov. 2024
She’s gone hard after friend-of Jacqueline Blake — a mismatched fight that makes Karen seem like the one punching down — because Jacqueline said that people shouldn’t judge until the case is resolved, and accused Karen of calling her while intoxicated.
—Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2024
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Matt Kamen, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2024
The list only covered ballots with mismatched signatures; a completely different process is required for ballots that were not signed at all.
—Arlyssa D. Becenti, The Arizona Republic, 27 Nov. 2024
The Bulls are attempting to build an offense on a simple foundation — get downhill, force the defense to collapse, kick the ball out and feed off the mismatched rotations.
—Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 13 Nov. 2024
She’s gone hard after friend-of Jacqueline Blake — a mismatched fight that makes Karen seem like the one punching down — because Jacqueline said that people shouldn’t judge until the case is resolved, and accused Karen of calling her while intoxicated.
—Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mismatched
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Four candidates filed for both Homer Glen trustee and a school board race, which are considered incompatible offices.Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 8 Jan. 2025
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Mitre describes a type confusion vulnerability, also known as common weakness enumeration 843, as occurring when a resource such as a pointer or object is accessed by a resource using an incompatible type.Davey Winder, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
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In terms of individual markets, and as noted above, China continues to be inconsistent for Hollywood, but even its local titles had issues in 2024.Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 15 Jan. 2025
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His performance has been inconsistent at times, and there have been problems out of his control, like mechanical issues, team mistakes or strategy not panning out.Luke Smith, The Athletic, 15 Jan. 2025
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All the logical arguments in the world, however, are irrelevant if fans believe something is off about the product and change the channel.Lev Akabas, Sportico.com, 7 Jan. 2025
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Through multiple appeals over the years, his legal team questioned Gauci’s testimony and conflict of interests, the bomb timer, and evidence not originally heard in court about a security breach at Heathrow airport which would change the bag’s origin and render Malta irrelevant.Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 6 Jan. 2025
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That bill was set for passage this week before Elon Musk went ballistic on social platform X, pointing out some real extraneous spending, as well as some misinformation, about what was in the bill.Jonathan Easley, The Hill, 20 Dec. 2024
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That way, the team could cut extraneous questions that obscured a client’s true vulnerability and could be traumatizing for a client to talk through unnecessarily.Carly Stern, Vox, 6 Dec. 2024
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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
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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
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While this finding may sound immaterial, understanding the structure of white dwarfs could ultimately prove key in discovering what mysterious dark matter is made from.Keith Cooper, Space.com, 19 Dec. 2024
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The play, about a fanciful tour guide of a dull and stately English country house who runs into conflict with a factually fastidious official at the historic property, was almost immaterial.Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2024
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Millions of businesses have been targeted, revealing the unfortunate truth: cybercrime has become a daily occurrence among various enterprises.William Jones, USA TODAY, 16 Jan. 2025
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Far too often over the previous three seasons, unfortunate and often unlucky things happened when Jackson threw the ball in Bateman’s direction.Jeff Zrebiec, The Athletic, 16 Jan. 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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