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Recent Examples of mismatched
If your flooring looks more like a patchwork quilt thanks to choppy updates and renovations throughout the years, consider an area rug in the entry that can blend or even camouflage the mismatched look.
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Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 23 Jan. 2025
Inside, the 19 rooms feel country-chic, with their mismatched furnishings; there are also a couple of stone barns and modern tree houses.
—Sara Lieberman, Travel + Leisure, 21 Jan. 2025
The mismatched brass buttons on Biden’s jacket are evocative of the label’s surrealist aesthetic.
—Hannah Malach, WWD, 16 Jan. 2025
Sherman sinks his teeth (no pun intended) into the material with gusto, directing the actors at a swift clip to tell the story of a mismatched reporter and doctor who uncover a grim conspiracy of medical experimentation.
—Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 17 Dec. 2024
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Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 23 Jan. 2025
Inside, the 19 rooms feel country-chic, with their mismatched furnishings; there are also a couple of stone barns and modern tree houses.
—Sara Lieberman, Travel + Leisure, 21 Jan. 2025
The mismatched brass buttons on Biden’s jacket are evocative of the label’s surrealist aesthetic.
—Hannah Malach, WWD, 16 Jan. 2025
Sherman sinks his teeth (no pun intended) into the material with gusto, directing the actors at a swift clip to tell the story of a mismatched reporter and doctor who uncover a grim conspiracy of medical experimentation.
—Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 17 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mismatched
Adjective
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Such incompatible geopolitical visions continue to be reflected in the maps produced.—
Christine Leuenberger,
The Conversation,
7 Feb. 2025
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Some common reasons include snoring, restlessness, parasomnia, frequent trips to the bathroom or incompatible sleep schedules.—
Charles Trepany,
USA TODAY,
6 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Especially if his team is still so maddeningly inconsistent.—
Arthur Staple,
The Athletic,
8 Feb. 2025
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Although Mitchell's overall output has been inconsistent in recent seasons, his defensive versatility has remained a major strength.—
Nathan Kamal,
Newsweek,
6 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Utilitarianism has died a rough death in the content mines, because views equal money, and if the pursuit of views is unchecked by ethics, then other people’s privacy becomes irrelevant.—
Kelsey McKinney,
Rolling Stone,
8 Feb. 2025
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In the end, all the pre-festival chatter is pretty irrelevant, mind.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
7 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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That bill was set for passage this week before Elon Musk went ballistic on social platform X, pointing out some real extraneous spending, as well as some misinformation, about what was in the bill.—
Jonathan Easley,
The Hill,
20 Dec. 2024
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The expert’s role is to extract and authenticate the relevant data while filtering out extraneous information.—
Lars Daniel,
Forbes,
6 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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These are responses that may sound correct at first, but turn out to be wrong (like your crazy uncle’s Thanksgiving table advice), often due to inapplicable or inaccurate information being used to train the models.—
Dean DeBiase,
Forbes,
25 Nov. 2024
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Pavia could argue Bewley is inapplicable since while the Bewley brothers were paid to play in OTE, there is no comparable point for Pavia.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
24 Nov. 2024
Adjective
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The inconvenience for residents, business owners, customers or guests is immaterial.—
Contributed Content,
Twin Cities,
6 Feb. 2025
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The Pennsylvania State Conference of the NAACP, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and other organizations claimed the requirement violates the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits states from denying the right to vote because of an immaterial error.—
Zach Schonfeld,
The Hill,
21 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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While injuries are always unfortunate, Lee’s absence should benefit a Horned Frogs team that struggled with Iowa State’s frontcourt on Sunday.—
Steven Johnson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
4 Feb. 2025
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Over those few unfortunate seconds for Bills left guard David Edwards, Jones provided yet another vivid example of why he’s been a first team All-Pro for three years in a row.—
Dave Campbell,
Twin Cities,
3 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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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 21 Feb. 2025.
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