nonmatching
Americanadjective
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not matching.
a nonmatching set of furniture.
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(of a financial grant, donation, or the like) available or given without requiring the recipient to obtain a complementary amount from another source.
Etymology
Origin of nonmatching
1960–65; non- + match 2 ( def. ) + -ing 2 ( def. )
Example Sentences
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In another group, they didn’t like that one boy wore an earring, another had long hair and a third had a nonmatching belt buckle.
From New York Times
But here’s how they got to that: of the 2,178 comparisons they made between nonmatching cartridge cases, 65 percent of the comparisons were correctly called “eliminations.”
From Scientific American
On the call with Watson, Trump urged her to check the envelope signatures against older signatures on file rather than a current file — an apparent attempt to inflate the numbers of nonmatching signatures.
From Washington Post
Raffensperger said Graham asked on the call whether political bias could have prompted poll workers to accept ballots with nonmatching signatures.
From Seattle Times
No evidence has surfaced that ballots with nonmatching signatures were counted.
From Washington Post
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