- plural of discrepancy.
discrepancies
Americannoun
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Millions of voters have also been flagged for additional scrutiny after the ECI used automated systems to detect what they described as "logical discrepancies", including mismatched names and inconsistencies in family details.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
She said she, her son and her daughter received notices this year from election authorities that their names had been flagged for discrepancies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
The investigation found discrepancies in the number of children in Mathewson's care and the number of children she was seen with on multiple occasions.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
Discussion of those and other discrepancies have been around for a long time.
From Salon ● Sep. 10, 2026
But Ptolemy and his followers had assumed that measurements could be regarded as approximations: in practice, there were bound to be minor discrepancies between theoretical predictions and actual measurements.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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