as in difference
the quality or state of being different
the discrepancy of the calculations of my bill by the hotel and myself was a matter of concern
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Recent Examples of discrepancy
But alleged discrepancies in his autopsy have raised additional questions from relatives.
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Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 29 Oct. 2025
There’s still a very big discrepancy between how many female directors are working today versus male directors in animation.
—Rosemary Rossi, Variety, 28 Oct. 2025
According to Complex, Turk recently filed a lawsuit against the tour promoters of the Cash Money Millionaires' 30th Anniversary Tour, alleging a pay discrepancy after being removed from the lineup.
—Taylor Ardrey, USA Today, 27 Oct. 2025
The discrepancy between what the researchers found and the conventional wisdom regarding typhus' impact on Napoleon's army likely has to do with the DNA analysis tools now available to researchers.
—New Atlas, 24 Oct. 2025
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Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 29 Oct. 2025
There’s still a very big discrepancy between how many female directors are working today versus male directors in animation.
—Rosemary Rossi, Variety, 28 Oct. 2025
According to Complex, Turk recently filed a lawsuit against the tour promoters of the Cash Money Millionaires' 30th Anniversary Tour, alleging a pay discrepancy after being removed from the lineup.
—Taylor Ardrey, USA Today, 27 Oct. 2025
The discrepancy between what the researchers found and the conventional wisdom regarding typhus' impact on Napoleon's army likely has to do with the DNA analysis tools now available to researchers.
—New Atlas, 24 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for discrepancy
Noun
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The difference is a handful of defenders get Moss’d every week.—
The Athletic College Football Staff,
New York Times,
9 Nov. 2025
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However, there's a significant difference between containing and controlling a wildfire.—
CA WILDFIRE BOT,
Sacbee.com,
8 Nov. 2025
Noun
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In the 1960s, Canadians hungered for public intellectuals pontificating on the distinctiveness of their identity.—
Dónal Gill,
The Dial,
28 Oct. 2025
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There’s no spark of distinctiveness in any of these characters.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
26 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Antibiotics kill bacteria inside and outside of the gut, reducing diversity in the microbiome.—
Leigh Weddle,
Verywell Health,
11 Nov. 2025
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Their ideology draws from a narrow South Asian current of Islam known as Deobandi, influential in parts of southeastern Afghanistan and Pakistan but far from representative of Afghanistan’s religious diversity or the wider Muslim world.—
Nargis Habib,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
11 Nov. 2025
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“Discrepancy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/discrepancy. Accessed 15 Nov. 2025.
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