How to Use disunity in a Sentence

disunity

noun
  • Trump has won but fighting and disunity do not need to also win.
    Alex Montoya, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Jan. 2025
  • That also opens up the chance for even more chaos and disunity among Democrats.
    Christian Paz, Vox, 27 June 2024
  • So there was unity, disunity, people scared, all of those things.
    Akiva Gottlieb, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2024
  • But there was a rare sign of disunity in that effort Tuesday.
    NBC News, 9 Mar. 2022
  • Progress on the peace process could remain elusive and drive greater disunity -- and even armed conflict.
    Helen Regan, CNN, 6 Nov. 2020
  • From live music to speeches about mental illness, church disunity, the faith’s full name and more.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Oct. 2021
  • So, what might those moments suggest for today’s era of disunity and discord?
    Cardinal Blase Cupich, Mercury News, 27 Nov. 2025
  • But the party has seldom found so much disunity without an obvious salve to ease the sting.
    Philip Elliott, Time, 22 Nov. 2022
  • And what better way to celebrate this ode to disunity with not one, not two, but three wildly disparate videos?
    Morgan Enos, Billboard, 30 Mar. 2018
  • Bauman said his letter was simply meant to stave off disunity at the convention.
    latimes.com, 31 Oct. 2017
  • But the alliance still seemed on its way to obsolescence, hobbled by a lack of purpose and disunity.
    New York Times, 14 Jan. 2022
  • Never once did any of them feel the need to equate anything from this unique evening with arguments promoting disunity.
    Jonathan Merrill, National Review, 8 Sep. 2017
  • Throughout the day, the leaders did their best to bat away any suggestions of impatience or disunity.
    Arkansas Online, 18 Feb. 2023
  • Our Constitution is set up around the idea that unity is scarier than disunity.
    Jonah Goldberg, National Review, 26 July 2019
  • The lack of personal trust among these loyalists may cause disunity and spark rivalries.
    Minxin Pei, Foreign Affairs, 21 Nov. 2022
  • On the contrary, the Middle East is plagued by disunity and rivalry.
    Maha Yahya, Foreign Affairs, 17 Feb. 2025
  • Despite their common enemy, the major armed groups in the borderlands are plagued by disunity.
    Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 16 Apr. 2023
  • In large part because of their own disunity, the Alawites never got their independent state.
    Hussein Ibish, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2024
  • Strong disagreements over the contents of the package threaten to project an image of disunity at the gathering.
    Shane Harris, Washington Post, 30 June 2023
  • That's quite a claim by the Prime Minister -- because to date, the holy site has caused a lot of violence and disunity.
    Daniel Burke, CNN, 5 Aug. 2020
  • The almost hostile display of disunity among the bishops has been disheartening for many of the faithful.
    Father Edward Beck, CNN, 19 June 2021
  • The threat to the United States of America has always been disunity.
    Ezra Klein, Vox, 16 Oct. 2018
  • In the longer term, the eurozone is held back by political disunity and a focus on fiscal discipline.
    Jon Sindreu, WSJ, 31 Dec. 2018
  • Almost since its inception, the AfD has been plagued by internal disunity.
    Judith Vonberg, Nadine Schmidt and Melina Borcak, CNN, 24 Oct. 2017
  • The era of the Founders was almost over, and the United States had been mired in a period of partisan disunity.
    Gregory S. Schneider, Washington Post, 3 July 2017
  • Most believe there could be solutions through civil dialog, there are answers in the middle, and there is destructive disunity at the fringes.
    Letters To The Editor, Hartford Courant, 2 June 2026
  • The contrast between the state of the parties at midsummer was sharpened further this week with reports of Democratic disunity.
    Dan Balz, Washington Post, 19 July 2024
  • The three were inspired by Abraham Lincoln’s warning of the dangers of disunity in his first inaugural address.
    Mike Yeomans, Scientific American, 21 Apr. 2020
  • From trade and economics to matters of war and peace, the United States and Europe are in an apparent period of disunity not seen in decades.
    James Lamond, Forbes.com, 4 Apr. 2025
  • Pelosi has always worked overtime to avoid the appearance of disunity in her caucus, and here, the rebel Blue Dogs threatened discord over a contentious election issue.
    Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 27 June 2019

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