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Recent Examples of mismatched
The space brimmed with mismatched antique sofas, vintage tennis rackets, and a wall display of men’s collared overcoats and baseball caps.
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Savannah Hanoum, Vogue, 10 Sep. 2025
Sam Tutty and Christiani Pitts star as a mismatched duo making their way from JFK to a wedding.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2025
For their legal ceremony in Monaco, Otedola wore a custom Christopher John Rogers ensemble, featuring a sculptural polka dot dress cinched with a wide belt and paired with mismatched polka dot shoes for a coordinated finish.
—Essence, 8 Sep. 2025
As their mismatched personalities stir tension with each other — and the group — old resentments bubble up, forcing them to reckon with their relationship and the lives waiting for them back home.
—Hannah Kerns, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025
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Savannah Hanoum, Vogue, 10 Sep. 2025
Sam Tutty and Christiani Pitts star as a mismatched duo making their way from JFK to a wedding.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2025
For their legal ceremony in Monaco, Otedola wore a custom Christopher John Rogers ensemble, featuring a sculptural polka dot dress cinched with a wide belt and paired with mismatched polka dot shoes for a coordinated finish.
—Essence, 8 Sep. 2025
As their mismatched personalities stir tension with each other — and the group — old resentments bubble up, forcing them to reckon with their relationship and the lives waiting for them back home.
—Hannah Kerns, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mismatched
Adjective
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Ideally, Congress would sit down and write a national framework that prevents fifty different states from producing a patchwork of rules that, in all likelihood, will end up as incompatible.—
The AI Insider,
Interesting Engineering,
22 Sep. 2025
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The investigation also found that 73 patients showed neurological signs incompatible with donation at these organizations.—
Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy,
USA Today,
18 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Royals’ offense finishes strong The Royals were plagued with an inconsistent offense this season.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
28 Sep. 2025
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But Todibo frustrated Potter with his inconsistent performances and was dropped for the 3-0 defeat by Tottenham two weeks ago over bad timekeeping.—
Roshane Thomas,
New York Times,
28 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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There is this constant projection from bad-faith actors, who find the truth irrelevant to their desires to rhetorically position the work that artists are doing—and even reality itself.—
Helen Molesworth,
Artforum,
1 Oct. 2025
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My teaching skills were basically irrelevant.—
Joshua Rothman,
New Yorker,
30 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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If someone is furloughed, the thinking goes, they could more easily be seen as extraneous, giving the Administration an easier path to arguing they aren’t needed at all.—
Philip Elliott,
Time,
1 Oct. 2025
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While self-locking carabiners, a harness, and a helmet are needed, other tools commonplace in mountaineering, like ropes and belay devices, are extraneous here.—
AFAR Media,
AFAR Media,
30 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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In 2023, the Supreme Court declared the bill inapplicable.—
Javier Bastardo,
Forbes.com,
1 Aug. 2025
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Here are the kicking motion rules, which the NHL deemed inapplicable given their determination that Hellebuyck propelled the puck into his own net.—
Murat Ates,
New York Times,
12 May 2025
Adjective
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The difference between stoking a civil war and pretending to stoke one is ultimately immaterial.—
Chris Stirewalt,
The Hill,
12 Sep. 2025
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Between them, Sinner and Alcaraz have dispatched their only serious rival in three straight majors, largely making every other match at these tournaments feel almost immaterial.—
Charlie Eccleshare,
New York Times,
6 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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All the rest are likely to shine in movies by good directors, and most actors whose reputations aren’t illustriously artistic have mainly been unfortunate in their collaborations.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
30 Sep. 2025
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Irish butter may now an internationally marketable commodity, but in Swift’s day, the Irish peasantry fought back against their replacement by cattle by maiming and driving the unfortunate cattle off cliffs.—
Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
30 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Short of calling an exterminator, experts suggest the following ways to rid a car, truck or SUV of rodents: One way is to simply make the vehicle uncongenial.—
Jim Gorzelany,
Forbes.com,
9 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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“Mismatched.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mismatched. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.
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