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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An additional 43,977 ballots were rejected because they had a nonmatching signature.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
Legal-services firms are disproportionately likely to opt for nonmatching contributions alone, according to Vanguard data.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
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 ● Nov. 3, 2022
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 ● May 25, 2022
Thus, the probability of having two successive nonmatching dreams is, by the multiplication principle for probability, the product of 9,999/10,000 and 9,999/10,000.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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