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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The discrepancies made the building appear more profitable to the lenders, and less so to city tax officials.
    Heather Vogell, ProPublica, 29 Sep. 2023
  • The root cause of that discrepancy is that the Diamondbacks have a lefty-heavy lineup.
    Theo MacKie, The Arizona Republic, 24 Mar. 2023
  • There was little the Cougars could do to alter that discrepancy.
    Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 Oct. 2022
  • Dubow said there don’t seem to be any discrepancies in payroll records.
    Claudia Vargas, Philly.com, 26 Apr. 2018

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