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
• The rest of the price discrepancy comes from the emergency room fees.
  — New York Times, 30 Mar. 2021
• 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
• To the eye, there hasn’t ever been this wide of a discrepancy between the two.
  — Dane Stangler, Forbes, 4 May 2023
• Both were upset at the discrepancy in fouls and free throws.
  — George Diaz, OrlandoSentinel.com, 6 Feb. 2018
• The foul discrepancy was a talking point after the game.
  — Kyle Brown, The Enquirer, 12 Mar. 2023
• But there's one bright spot in this murky mess of discrepancies.
  — Krystin Arneson, Glamour, 16 May 2018
• The discrepancy seems to be in the stores’ sizes, employees say.
  — Shwanika Narayan, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 May 2021
• That kind of depth discrepancy can play a factor in these games.
  — Arkansas Online, 17 Sep. 2022
• Some of the discrepancy between the local and state death count comes down to this delay.
  — Brian Chasnoff, ExpressNews.com, 4 Aug. 2020
• 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
• The first is that there is not really a discrepancy at all.
  — The Economist, 13 June 2019
• That kind of discrepancy is where these systems hope to find their sweet spot.
  — Dina Fine Maron, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2017
• The lawsuit cites this discrepancy in the plans, among others.
  — Craig R. McCoy, Philly.com, 15 June 2018
• This could help iron out any discrepancies if something were to go wrong.
  — Nathan Bachrach, Cincinnati.com, 9 May 2018
• What’s the discrepancy between the best- and worst-case models?
  — Jill Kiedaisch, Popular Mechanics, 27 Feb. 2019
• The discrepancy left some in debt even as more claims went unprocessed.
  — Jenna Portnoy, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2022
• The discrepancy is even greater among missing women and girls.
  — Li Cohen, CBS News, 1 Oct. 2021
• Dubow said there don’t seem to be any discrepancies in payroll records.
  — Claudia Vargas, Philly.com, 26 Apr. 2018
• Zavala said the pay discrepancy is due to favoritism, not longevity.
  — Karen Caffarini, Post-Tribune, 25 Apr. 2018
• That discrepancy, like much else in the case, remains untested in the courtroom.
  — al, 23 Mar. 2021
• No one is entirely clear why there is such a discrepancy in the numbers.
  — Howard Cohen, miamiherald, 31 Jan. 2018
• The discrepancy was largest among parents of school-age children.
  — Washington Post, 30 Sep. 2020
• There was little the Cougars could do to alter that discrepancy.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 30 Apr 2024