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Recent Examples of discrepancy This year’s version was probably the hardest so far because of a continually shrinking talent discrepancy between the haves and the have-nots on the back end. Harman Dayal, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025 Bottles of Lipton Green Tea Citrus were mistakenly labeled as Diet Green Tea Mixed Berry, resulting in a discrepancy in sugar content. Jenna Anderson, Health, 7 Oct. 2025 Local rescue officials were not immediately available for comment on the discrepancy in numbers. Larissa Gao, NBC news, 6 Oct. 2025 For scientists, that discrepancy keeps open — but does not confirm — the possibility of a biological origin. Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 3 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for discrepancy
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Noun
  • As Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak reminds us, any meaningful engagement must contend with internal difference, historical specificity, and political complexity.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Rhea Ripley and Iyo Sky hoped to put their differences aside to vanquish the Kabuki Warriors in Asuka and Kairi Sane.
    Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 11 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • There’s no spark of distinctiveness in any of these characters.
    Judy Berman, Time, 26 Sep. 2025
  • However, because capital appropriates the powers of living labor to itself, the distinctiveness of the latter is deeply obscured.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Oyediran says at a time when our nation is as divided as ever over race and political differences, Nathan’s focus on diversity is worth paying attention to.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The main hurdle that European CLO managers face is the ability to construct a pool of European private credit loans with enough diversity to satisfy the requirements of rating agencies.
    Hugh Leask, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2025

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“Discrepancy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/discrepancy. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.

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