discrepancyin a sentence
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She is on paid leave while the accounting discrepancy is investigated.
discrepancy = an unexpected difference between two things
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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.
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discrepancy = a difference between two things expected to be in agreement
- When Rudy's group came into the square and was instructed to halt, there was a discrepancy.† (source)
- 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)
- But as hard as he tried, he could not identify the discrepancy "What is missing?" he asked, at last.† (source)
- You've noticed a discrepancy, surely.† (source)
- Langdon motioned to the glaring discrepancy.† (source)
- Our former technical sciences professor, Dr. Hauptmann, has called our attention to the discrepancy He has arranged that you will be sent to a special technology division of the Wehrmacht.† (source)
- It puzzled everybody that an eighteen-minute age difference could cause such a discrepancy in front-tooth timing.† (source)
- Or, perhaps more accurately, this middle zone illustrates the fundamental discrepancy of love.† (source)
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- There was no place we saw any serious discrepancy.† (source)
- Assignment discrepancies can be addressed at the Head Office," says the guard.† (source)
- "Nick, there have been many discrepancies in this case," Betsy said in Sharon's plummy broadcast voice.† (source)
- "There are discrepancies that are beyond dispute," says Simon.† (source)
- 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)
- I want to be impartial, and I thought this would be the best way to handle the discrepancy.† (source)
- The harsh lifestyle, the lack of food, the drabness of people's dress, the discrepancy between the official exchange rate and the black market.† (source)
- He had immediately concluded that there was a discrepancy between Palmgren's obligations, according to the regulations of guardianship, and the fact that he had apparently allowed the Salander girl to take charge of her own household and finances.† (source)
- No discrepancy existed between their demeanors as they stood bathed in dawn's first rays.† (source)
- Readers familiar with the Outside article may notice discrepancies between certain details (primarily matters of time) reported in the magazine and those in the book; the revisions reflect new information that has come to light since publication of the magazine piece.† (source)
- 'Camp Controller Harris discovered the discrepancy in the Calm Control at 05:23 the following morning, after noticing an underlying frequency that had been added without his consent.† (source)
- The OSHA log recorded only 160 — a discrepancy of more than 1,000 percent.† (source)
- I have removed or rewritten sections to their approval, and in the few cases of discrepancy among the operators, I went with the majority.† (source)
- Twice now he'd been told, and the two versions were very much alike, the only serious discrepancy being that Hickock attributed all four deaths to Smith, while Smith contended that Hickock had killed the two women.† (source)
- Mr. Cross had put it up for sale in May, just after a lawsuit was filed by several Rest Assured clients who had began to notice, and question, various discrepancies on their accounts.† (source)
- There had been the Olive War, the Tuna Fish Discrepancy, which almost bankrupted both nations, the Roman Rift, which did send them both into insolvency, only to be followed by the Discord of the Emeralds, in which they both got rich again, chiefly by banding together for a brief period and robbing everybody within sailing distance.† (source)
- But the fact is, a perfectly discrepant version has the same ending.† (source)
- These nature-nurture discrepancies were addressed in a 1998 book by a little-known textbook author named Judith Rich Harris.† (source)
- It was a crime of passion-the only discrepancy is that I focused on the passion part and the courts focused on the crime.† (source)
- Why the time discrepancy between seeing him and calling the police?† (source)
- Regardless of the motive, it will be necessary for you to explain the discrepancy in your books.† (source)
- Hoerni had a special fondness for the Karakoram, where he'd gone trekking, and told friends he had come away struck by the discrepancy between the exquisite mountain scenery and the brutal lives of the Balti porters.† (source)
- You follow these little discrepancies long enough and they sometimes open up into huge revelations.† (source)
- If there was any discrepancy, it had nothing to do with me.† (source)
- While the prosecutor has said that the case of the Amistad is nearly identical, I believe we have heard Lieutenant Gedney's testimony to reveal a major discrepancy.† (source)
- Soon—minutes—he would have every fact correlated with everything else he knows, discrepancies noted, probability values assigned to uncertainties.† (source)
- Brian shrugged, tabulating his own totals once more to be sure that Brother Leon wouldn't blame him for any discrepancies.† (source)
- ....Incidentally, if you've been following my publicity, have you noticed a funny little discrepancy in the story of Mrs. Gilbert Vail?† (source)
- Snow Flower's mother does not seem to mind these discrepancies, since the two girls share so many other sames.† (source)
- He turned and searched the source of the image for some discrepancy.† (source)
- Why the discrepancy?† (source)
- His nervousness is compounded as Lovett questions him again, probing Mudd's story for discrepancies, half-truths, and outright lies.† (source)
- Sometimes, because he was a lawyer, he asked them for his own pleasure alone, to demonstrate the discrepancy between evidence and perfective truth.† (source)
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The discrepancy consists, Mrs. Helmer, in the fact that your father signed this bond three days after his death.
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discrepancy = an unexpected difference between two things
- It is a discrepancy, isn't it? (source)
- What discrepancy? (source)
- If there was any discrepancy, it had nothing to do with me.† (source)
- But Blomkvist did make a note of a discrepancy in the report: the information about her uncommunicative frame of mind came chiefly from her classmates, and to a certain extent from the family.† (source)
- Although Sophie had seen this classic image many times, she had not once noticed this glaring discrepancy.† (source)
- On another, there may be a discrepancy between how many glasses of wine were ordered and how many poured.† (source)
- One day, there may be a discrepancy between how many onions arrived in the kitchen and how many were served in the stew.† (source)
- That's a huge discrepancy.† (source)
- So she seized upon the first discrepancy she noticed—the shape of the scales around Saphira's eyes—and used it as an excuse to feign a realization that the world around her was only a pretense.† (source)
- What discrepancy?† (source)
- It's not until page thirty-three, where Björck draws conclusions and makes recommendations, that the discrepancy arises.† (source)
- Maybe a small discrepancy...When she opened the file properties in Word for the various monthly reports, she could see that he usually wrote them in the first few days of each month, that he spent about four hours editing each report, and sent them punctually to the Guardianship Agency on the twentieth of every month.† (source)
- I was thinking about the discrepancy one day and it suddenly came to me that it wasn't a discrepancy at all.† (source)
- I have not admitted to any discrepancy.† (source)
- However, a few weeks after the transcripts, jointly labeled "Document 185," reached Congress, Adams discovered a serious discrepancy.† (source)
- Some reporters took time to dig out sense of figures and tackled Prof on glaring discrepancy: "Professor de la Paz, here you say that grain shipments will dwindle away through failure of natural resources and that by 2082 Luna won't even be able to feed its own people.† (source)
- Oh, he pointed out, the discrepancy was because I had appeared at class to tell my teacher I couldn't attend?† (source)
- As usual, there was a discrepancy between the amount of chocolates reported as sold and the actual money received.† (source)
- The explanation I've come to arises from the discrepancy between his lack of faith in scientific reason in the laboratory and his fanatic faith expressed in the Church of Reason lecture.† (source)
- Despite this confusing discrepancy, most agreed that it was a good religion, and some, Burnah and Kinna in particular, had accepted Jesus Christ as their savior.† (source)
- Not a discrepancy.† (source)
- There have to be discrepancies.† (source)
- If you will accept some frank but well-intentioned advice from an old woman, permit me to observe, that in permanent unions between the sexes, discrepancies in age and fortune must always be detrimental; but how much more so, are discrepancies in moral outlook.† (source)
- The scrolls highlight glaring historical discrepancies and fabrications, clearly confirming that the modern Bible was compiled and edited by men who possessed a political agenda—to promote the divinity of the man Jesus Christ and use His influence to solidify their own power base.† (source)
- In the first three cabinets, there was an orderly collection of reports on the hotel's operations: revenues; occupancy rates; staffing; maintenance expenditures; inventories; and yes, discrepancies.† (source)
- What sort of discrepancies?† (source)
- All kinds of discrepancies.† (source)
- But as manager of the Metropol, I am the one who must ensure that every aspect of the hotel meets a standard of perfection; and that requires a vigilant attention to the elimination of all discrepancies.† (source)
- Not only had this accountant of discrepancies, this stripper of wine labels entered the Count's quarters without invitation, he had actually rested his elbows on that dimpled surface where once had been written persuasive arguments to statesmen and exquisite counsel to friends.† (source)
- Discrepancies?† (source)
- Heidi's stuff was organized, her files made sense, and there were only a few discrepancies, all of which had happened in the last ten months or so.† (source)
- What Prof told them bore a speaking acquaintance with truth and they were not where they could spot discrepancies.† (source)
- I have no answers, Jason, only discrepancies, things that can't be explained-that should be explained.† (source)
- The White House issued a statement denying any involvement with "alterations or unforeseen discrepancies."† (source)
- The discrepancy between faith and the facts is greater than is generally assumed.† (source)
- Raising her eyebrows at the discrepancy—that was what she was thinking, this was what she was doing—ladling out soup—she felt, more and more strongly, outside that eddy; or as if a shade had fallen, and, robbed of colour, she saw things truly.† (source)
- He took no notice of her and went steadily on: "Such a hypothesis had the merit of explaining one fact-the discrepancy between the personality of Alexander Bonaparte Cust (who could never have made the click with any girl) and the personality of Betty Barnard's murderer.† (source)
- But here is a discrepancy of four dollars and sixty-five cents.† (source)
- It may be inseparable from the discrepancy in their years.† (source)
- He resented the wasted years at New Haven, but mostly he felt a discrepancy between the growing luxury in which the Divers lived, and the need for display which apparently went along with it.† (source)
- Fielding, too, had his anxieties—he didn't like the fieldglasses or the discrepancy over the guide—but he relegated them to the edge of his mind, and forbade them to infect its core.† (source)
- But finally it occurred to me all of a sudden that these animals didn't reason; that they never put this and that together; that all their talk showed that they didn't know a discrepancy when they saw it.† (source)
- He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and his singular account of his father's dying words.† (source)
- Wal!" ejaculated the Westerner, as he rapidly worked up his jack to meet the discrepancy occasioned by Tom's lift.† (source)
- So I called a halt and said: "Sire, as between clothes and countenance, you are all right, there is no discrepancy; but as between your clothes and your bearing, you are all wrong, there is a most noticeable discrepancy.† (source)
- And with Clyde not a little astonished and later even heartened by this seemingly favorable discrepancy between the attitude of the crowds in Bridgeburg and this sudden, morbid, feverish and even hectic curiosity here, bowing and smiling and even waving with his hand.† (source)
- He spoke of me all the time, in the blandest way, as "this prodigious giant," and "this horrible sky-towering monster," and "this tusked and taloned man-devouring ogre", and everybody took in all this bosh in the naivest way, and never smiled or seemed to notice that there was any discrepancy between these watered statistics and me.† (source)
- Subsequent to this, the guide who had brought Clyde and Roberta from Gun Lodge conferring with the inn-keepers at Big Bittern and Grass Lake, it was factually determined: (1) that the drowned girl had left her bag at Gun Lodge whereas Clifford Golden had taken his with him; (2) that there was a disturbing discrepancy between the registration at Grass Lake and that at Big Bittern, the names Carl Graham and Clifford Golden being carefully discussed by the two inn-keepers and the identity of the bearer as to looks established; and (3) that the said Clifford Golden or Carl Graham had asked of the guide who had driven him over to Big Bittern whether there were many people on the lake that day.† (source)
- It is often instructive to take the woman's, the private and domestic, view of a public man; nor can anything be more curious than the vast discrepancy between portraits intended for engraving and the pencil-sketches that pass from hand to hand behind the original's back.† (source)
- There was no discrepancy of years between us to remove her far from me; we were of nearly the same age, though of course the age told for more in her case than in mine; but the air of inaccessibility which her beauty and her manner gave her, tormented me in the midst of my delight, and at the height of the assurance I felt that our patroness had chosen us for one another.† (source)
- Perhaps nothing so soon betrays the education and association as the modes of speech; and few accomplishments so much aid the charm of female beauty as a graceful and even utterance, while nothing so soon produces the disenchantment that necessarily follows a discrepancy between appearance and manner, as a mean intonation of voice, or a vulgar use of words.† (source)
- Still, horrible as these objects were to those near enough to discover the frightful discrepancy between their assumed and their real characters, the arrangement had been made with so much art that it would have deceived a negligent observer at the distance of a hundred yards.† (source)
- Here, if one could but hit on the idea ....This alphabetical business, it has discrepancies.† (source)
- I will achieve in my life—Heaven grant that it be not long—some gigantic amalgamation between the two discrepancies so hideously apparent to me.† (source)
- With my Australian accent I have sat in eating-shops and tried to make the clerks accept me, yet never forgotten my solemn and severe convictions and the discrepancies and incoherences that must be resolved.† (source)
- Do you know how to account for those strange discrepancies?† (source)
- But if, as might happen, there were some discrepancies, to admit the truth, to be frank and say like a man: "Well, I have looked into my accounts.† (source)
- Waving aside petty differences of conclusions which, although they might occasionally cause the deaths of several millions of young men, might be explained away—supposing that after all Bernard Shaw and Bernhardi, Bonar Law and Bethmann-Hollweg were mutual heirs of progress if only in agreeing against the ducking of witches—waiving the antitheses and approaching individually these men who seemed to be the leaders, he was repelled by the discrepancies and contradictions in the men themselves.† (source)
- These two tendencies, apparently so discrepant, are far from conflicting; they advance together, and mutually support each other.† (source)
- 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)
- The union between these two cantons only subsists upon the map, and their discrepancies would soon be perceived if an attempt were made by a central authority to prescribe the same laws to the whole territory.† (source)
- power in France as universal as the supremacy it represents—The King a branch of the legislature—The President the mere executor of the law—Other differences resulting from the duration of the two powers—The President checked in the exercise of the executive authority—The King independent in its exercise—Notwithstanding these discrepancies France is more akin to a republic than the Union to a monarchy—Comparison of the number of public officers depending upon the executive power in the two countries.† (source)
- Though not an implicit believer in the lurid story narrated (or the eggsniping transaction for that matter despite William Tell and the Lazarillo-Don Cesar de Bazan incident depicted in Maritana on which occasion the former's ball passed through the latter's hat) having detected a discrepancy between his name (assuming he was the person he represented himself to be and not sailing under false colours after having boxed the compass on the strict q.t. somewhere) and the fictitious addressee of the missive which made him nourish some suspicions of our friend's bona fides nevertheless it reminded him in a way of a longcherished plan h† (source)
- The lack of harmony in the /-our/ words, leading to such discrepancies as /honorary/ and /honourable/, I have already mentioned.† (source)
- Certainly in every public work which in it anything of gravity contains preparation should be with importance commensurate and therefore a plan was by them adopted (whether by having preconsidered or as the maturation of experience it is difficult in being said which the discrepant opinions of subsequent inquirers are not up to the present congrued to render manifest) whereby maternity was so far from all accident possibility removed that whatever care the patient in that all hardest of woman hour chiefly required and not solely for the copiously opulent but also for her who not being sufficiently moneyed scarcely and ofte† (source)
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