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- verb Present participle of
mismatch . - noun An incorrect
match or pairing; amismatch .
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Examples
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Of course, if DNS is subverted, there are other indicators higher up the stack that might indicate that we are not talking to the server we think we are talking to like host name mismatching errors in SSL, or odd looking URLs in web browsers.
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You can see that the same kind of mismatching when you start thinking about baby boomers and the very different lives they lead.
BBC News - Home 2011
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None of them would have been able to massively expand their balance sheets had they been required to limit their asset-liability mismatching.
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There I was alone, a normal girl at first sight, layered up in my mismatching fabric to hide from the sun.
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They vote for nationalization of industry, racial quotas in firms (systematically mismatching labor and employment), massive redistribution and confiscatory taxation.
Immigration: Has the Public Been Ignored?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Love comes down to a set of wills trying to match and sometimes mismatching in spectacular fashion; I think all love is unrequited unless we have a clone of ourselves and even then the love is unrequited.
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If he wins, history shows he'd be the one to beat at the Oscars: The lead actor SAG race has the best record of the four acting categories, mismatching only four times with the Oscars.
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The curtains were drawn against a sun that might have bleached the grey-green silk and velvet upholstery of Mathilde's Louis XV settee and slightly mismatching chairs.
Coppet, Switzerland — April 2000 Sylvia Petter 2012
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They vote for nationalization of industry, racial quotas in firms (systematically mismatching labor and employment), massive redistribution and confiscatory taxation.
Immigration: Has the Public Been Ignored?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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In part, the impending commercial real estate debacle is a glaring example of borrowers mismatching the loan term with its use.
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