Example Sentences

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The challenge became even more difficult when matching and mismatched color words appeared together in the same list.

From Science Daily • Jun. 10, 2026

Many shared screenshots that appeared to show mismatched answer sheets and incorrect marking.

From BBC • May 28, 2026

“The visual graphic, which was widely circulated online, was mismatched with the table of results, thus implicating both of our formulas,” Bauer said.

From Salon • Mar. 20, 2026

It might have acquired a crack in that mighty windshield by then, a rumpled bumper, a dent in the door, mismatched mudders.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026

Everything else—the gateleg table they’d painted blue, the mismatched chairs, Pearl’s bed and Mia’s mattress and the tussock of pillows they’d called a couch—would be left behind.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng