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Recent Examples of mismatched
One way is to choose mismatched civilizations at the end of each age.
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Barry Collins, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2025
The comedy-drama, about two mismatched cousins reuniting for a Holocaust tour in Poland to honor their grandmother, was produced by Stone.
—Paul Chi, Vogue, 23 Feb. 2025
When an opportunity arises to investigate a massive corporate fraud case involving a slippery billionaire (Steve Coogan), the mismatched pair attempts to step up—only to quickly find themselves in over their heads.
—Travis Bean, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2025
The nine-time Tony Award winner follows the adventures of a mismatched pair of missionaries sent halfway across the world to spread the Good Word.
—Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 21 Feb. 2025
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Barry Collins, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2025
The comedy-drama, about two mismatched cousins reuniting for a Holocaust tour in Poland to honor their grandmother, was produced by Stone.
—Paul Chi, Vogue, 23 Feb. 2025
When an opportunity arises to investigate a massive corporate fraud case involving a slippery billionaire (Steve Coogan), the mismatched pair attempts to step up—only to quickly find themselves in over their heads.
—Travis Bean, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2025
The nine-time Tony Award winner follows the adventures of a mismatched pair of missionaries sent halfway across the world to spread the Good Word.
—Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 21 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mismatched
Adjective
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Gender dysphoria is incompatible with the demands of military service.—
Melissa Quinn,
CBS News,
29 Apr. 2025
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Clinical trials generate vast amounts of data which could be used to develop other treatments, beyond those directly attached to trial outcomes, but much of it is inaccessible, because it’s stored in incompatible formats and systems.—
Amy Guttman,
Forbes.com,
18 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Orlando Sentinel Chicago has been inconsistent this season, most recently losing to Nashville SC 7-2, and has gone winless in the last five matches.—
Kyle Foley,
The Orlando Sentinel,
2 May 2025
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But his hands are inconsistent after recording the most drops (10) of any receiver in the nation last season.—
Antwan Staley,
New York Daily News,
2 May 2025
Adjective
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This is pretty much your standard-issue focus-group scene, with dopey viewers idiotically nitpicking irrelevant details.—
Jessica M. Goldstein,
Vulture,
2 May 2025
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By 1917 in Russia, housewives were marching in city streets to protest a lack of food, peasants were seizing land, and many Russians saw the czarist government as irrelevant, even treasonous.—
Margaret MacMillan,
The Atlantic,
30 Apr. 2025
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But the story could be streamlined and clarified by cutting out some of the extraneous characters not crucial to the plot.—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
22 Apr. 2025
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But there’s a fundamental contradiction in seeing nature as something that’s extraneous to humankind.—
Farah Nayeri,
New York Times,
12 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Researching feels incomprehensible or inapplicable, especially as a business owner.—
Bree Manay,
Forbes.com,
17 Apr. 2025
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That was the site of its preseason test days, although that event was held in unseasonably cold weather, which means much of what the teams learned then may be inapplicable this coming weekend.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
7 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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So, how can the immaterial affect the material?—
Big Think,
Big Think,
12 Apr. 2025
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The orchestra produces a ravishment of sound both immaterial and downright tactile.—
Mark Swed,
Los Angeles Times,
15 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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After a half-decade of unfortunate injuries and the still-strange collapse in the bubble, Leonard at last looks like his two-time Finals MVP self.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
New York Times,
3 May 2025
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Responding to the precariousness of our moment, museums have reified the problem with an unfortunate watchword: relevance.—
Eric Crosby,
Artforum,
1 May 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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“Mismatched.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mismatched. Accessed 13 May. 2025.
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