as in discord
a lack of agreement or harmony
troubling signs of disunity within the normally peaceful organization
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Recent Examples of disunity
Dissension, division and disunity are the order of the day.
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Linda Chapin, Orlando Sentinel, 9 Mar. 2025
On the contrary, the Middle East is plagued by disunity and rivalry.
—Maha Yahya, Foreign Affairs, 17 Feb. 2025
That reality is in part a result of our current era of highly competitive elections, which have often produced a House where the majority party holds just a small advantage, making any intraparty disunity all the more impactful.
—Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 9 Jan. 2025
In large part because of their own disunity, the Alawites never got their independent state.
—Hussein Ibish, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2024
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Linda Chapin, Orlando Sentinel, 9 Mar. 2025
On the contrary, the Middle East is plagued by disunity and rivalry.
—Maha Yahya, Foreign Affairs, 17 Feb. 2025
That reality is in part a result of our current era of highly competitive elections, which have often produced a House where the majority party holds just a small advantage, making any intraparty disunity all the more impactful.
—Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 9 Jan. 2025
In large part because of their own disunity, the Alawites never got their independent state.
—Hussein Ibish, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disunity
Noun
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That was as close as Mrs. Obama got to directly addressing the rumors of marital discord.—
Claire Moses,
New York Times,
10 Apr. 2025
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But right now, there's no discord between he and I, which is great.—
Shania Russell,
EW.com,
2 Apr. 2025
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Attempting to rearrange these relationships is just going to cause marital strife for you.—
R. Eric Thomas,
Mercury News,
23 Apr. 2025
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For all the chaos and strife of the tariffs in the opening act of his second term, Trump’s U.S.-Canada-Mexico trade deal, which went into effect in 2020, and his negotiations with China during his first term indicate some ability not just to pick economic fights but to try to settle them.—
Jennifer M. Harris,
Foreign Affairs,
22 Apr. 2025
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It is designed to mimic a shark’s skin by reducing friction and smoothing out turbulent airflow.—
Michael Verdon,
Robb Report,
3 May 2025
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So there’s plenty of interpersonal friction happening long before the murder takes place.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
30 Apr. 2025
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The Catholic Church faces similar challenges but so far has been able to avoid schisms by limiting the actual changes being made.—
Dennis Doyle,
The Conversation,
8 May 2025
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But as President Trump exerts near-total control over the Republican Party, and the country seems bitterly divided along partisan lines more than ever, the G.O.P. schism in Montana has attracted outsize attention.—
Will Warasila,
New York Times,
3 May 2025
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Throughout the first fifteen months of the conflict, Israel’s behavior, specifically in refusing to allow sufficient amounts of aid into Gaza, drew international condemnation.—
Isaac Chotiner,
New Yorker,
2 May 2025
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Despite some conflicts over the direction the church should take, most experts don't expect the conclave to stretch beyond a few days.—
John Bacon,
USA Today,
2 May 2025
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Editors’ Picks An editor at Fast Company, a magazine about business, technology and design, was among the first to notice the discordance.—
Adeel Hassan,
New York Times,
4 May 2025
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Sachs plays on the discordance between his naturalistic approach and the theatricality of the project with meta elements like a quick glimpse of the crew or posed shots of the actors occasionally punctuating the conversation, accompanied by blasts of Mozart’s Requiem in D Minor.—
David Rooney,
The Hollywood Reporter,
27 Jan. 2025
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But his rebuke of Trump's policies answered one of Wall Street's biggest questions of this weekend: Would Buffett weigh in on the trade war and its massive disruptions?—
Maria Aspan,
NPR,
3 May 2025
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Trial judge rejected arguments about war service At the time of Hutchinson's trial, psychiatrist William Baumzweiger found that Hutchinson's form of mental illness could result in unconscious fits of rage, the Tampa Bay Times reported.—
James Powel,
USA Today,
3 May 2025
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The idea is that these nodes can be quickly deployed where required by AUVs like Anduril's Dive-XL and then carry out surveillance and reconnaissance for anti-submarine and anti-ship warfare.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
26 Apr. 2025
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The group responded with the escalation of drone and missile warfare against the U.S. and Israel.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 Apr. 2025
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“Disunity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disunity. Accessed 13 May. 2025.
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