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- adjective Not
matching .
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Examples
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The cupboards are mostly bare, except for a few nonmatching dishes and glasses.
GONE LISA McMANN 2010
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The cupboards are mostly bare, except for a few nonmatching dishes and glasses.
GONE LISA McMANN 2010
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The cupboards are mostly bare, except for a few nonmatching dishes and glasses.
GONE LISA McMANN 2010
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The cupboards are mostly bare, except for a few nonmatching dishes and glasses.
GONE LISA McMANN 2010
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Men might remove a tie or wear dress pants and a nonmatching jacket.
Business Casual: 2008
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Franklin came back in with the coffee, which was a thin own-brand brew in three nonmatching pottery mugs, two of them chipped, on a cork bar tray, with an open carton of half-and-half and a yellow box of sugar and a single pressed-steel spoon.
One Shot Child, Lee 2005
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I could switch to haloscan (actually did it for about a week and switched back) but I don't like the pop up box, the nonmatching look between the comment box and the blog, and there is no notification (although it may have been there and I missed it).
Looking For A New Place Nathaniel Livingston 2004
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Mixed in with gap-toothed combs and nonmatching cufflinks and broken-winged sunglasses and squeezed-out tubes of various lotions and ointments were worn-looking brass knuckles, a red domino mask, a Mickey Mouse mask, a ski mask, three right-handed rubber gloves, a false mustache mounted on a white card in a clear plastic bag, a sprinkling of subway slugs, and as advertised, a pair of chrome handcuffs with the key in the lock.
Drowned Hopes Westlake, Donald E. 1990
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Why would people choose to get seasonal flu shots when there was a nonmatching viral outbreak?
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The correct but nonmatching 340 engine has been rebuilt with a hot street Mopar cam and Holley 600cfm 4-barrel carburetor, and is still fitted with the factory upswept HP exhaust manifolds, factory cast iron intake manifold, factory electronic ignition, and factory air cleaner assembly.
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