Sample Sentences for
discrepancy
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    There is still some discrepancy over the exact wording of the text.
    discrepancy = disagreement
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    And, as that is so, there is a discrepancy (taking a paper from his pocket) which I cannot account for.  (source)
    discrepancy = a difference between two things expected to be in agreement
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    When Rudy's group came into the square and was instructed to halt, there was a discrepancy.†  (source)
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    But as hard as he tried, he could not identify the discrepancy "What is missing?" he asked, at last.†  (source)
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    I found there was discrepancies between then and now.†  (source)
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    But the fact is, a perfectly discrepant version has the same ending.†  (source)
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    Or, perhaps more accurately, this middle zone illustrates the fundamental discrepancy of love.†  (source)
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    "There are discrepancies that are beyond dispute," says Simon.†  (source)
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    These two tendencies, apparently so discrepant, are far from conflicting; they advance together, and mutually support each other.†  (source)
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    I want to be impartial, and I thought this would be the best way to handle the discrepancy.†  (source)
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    There may be a few little faults in the plumbing and minor discrepancies among the staff, but I'm very confident of my service.†  (source)
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    In such a novel intermixture, however, of men born and nurtured in freedom, and the compliant minions of absolute power, the catholic and the protestant, the active and the indolent, some little time was necessary to blend the discrepant elements of society.†  (source)
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    When basketball season began, there was an inexplicable discrepancy between the number of ten-cent tickets sold and the considerably larger number of kids in the bleachers.†  (source)
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