as in strife
a lack of agreement or harmony
the discord between two of the members threatened to tear our team of researchers apart
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as in to conflict
to be out of harmony or agreement usually noticeably
the evangelist's lavish lifestyle discords with his professed religious beliefs
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Recent Examples of discord
Deputy News Editor, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2025
Along the way, there’s been a fair amount of discord between Schon and Cain that played out in legal filings, social media posts, and interviews.
—Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 6 Nov. 2025
And then, playing cleverly on their natural discord, River and Shirley argue their way through a standoff with Farouk just long enough for Coe to take advantage of the distraction and plunge a blade in Farouk’s neck.
—Scott Tobias, Vulture, 29 Oct. 2025
China, for its part, has also stoked the flames of discord in recent weeks, first by announcing new global export controls on rare earth minerals, key components in technologies and weaponry.
—Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 23 Oct. 2025
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Social media users and commentators seemingly connected these incidents, fueling narratives of potential marital discord.
—Deputy News Editor, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2025
Along the way, there’s been a fair amount of discord between Schon and Cain that played out in legal filings, social media posts, and interviews.
—Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 6 Nov. 2025
And then, playing cleverly on their natural discord, River and Shirley argue their way through a standoff with Farouk just long enough for Coe to take advantage of the distraction and plunge a blade in Farouk’s neck.
—Scott Tobias, Vulture, 29 Oct. 2025
China, for its part, has also stoked the flames of discord in recent weeks, first by announcing new global export controls on rare earth minerals, key components in technologies and weaponry.
—Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 23 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for discord
Noun
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After more than a century of plunder and strife, under tyrants as diverse as King Leopold II of Belgium and Mobutu Sese Seko, the present-day DRC still occupies the dark heart of the continent in much of the world’s imagination.—
Holden Frith,
TheWeek,
9 Jan. 2026
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Located in the Horn of Africa, Somalia is one of the world’s poorest nations and has been beset by chronic strife and insecurity exacerbated by multiple natural disasters, including severe droughts, for decades.—
Omar Faruk,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Jan. 2026
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If you are conflicted about a player or a decision, get more information.—
Jeff Zrebiec,
New York Times,
10 Jan. 2026
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The prospect of xAI powering Tesla’s humanoid robots could be seen as conflicting with past statements that Tesla’s leadership has made in attempts to portray the work the two companies are doing as largely separate and unrelated.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
9 Jan. 2026
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This airflow spins the rotator through surface friction alone.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
12 Jan. 2026
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The sneakers have a stretchy mesh upper material that provides airflow during activity and minimizes friction, according to the brand.—
Clara McMahon,
PEOPLE,
12 Jan. 2026
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Federal buildings became sites of protests, including those resulting in protesters clashing with law enforcement.—
Michael Loria,
USA Today,
11 Jan. 2026
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Throughout pretrial proceedings, attorneys repeatedly clashed over whether political expression related to Gaza could be considered a legitimate defense.—
Ryan Macasero,
Mercury News,
10 Jan. 2026
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Part of that discordance might be the fact that as a genre, rock has historically been difficult to define.—
Hannah Dailey,
Billboard,
19 Nov. 2025
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The sport of off-roading suffers from a fundamental discordance: The desire to get out into nature and the irreparable harm inherent in the process of off-roading.—
Tim Stevens,
ArsTechnica,
25 July 2025
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The right’s schisms were on full display during AmericaFest, Turning Point USA’s annual conference, which took place in Phoenix this past weekend.—
David Remnick,
New Yorker,
22 Dec. 2025
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But in the late 1970s and early 1980s, a painful schism emerged between them, one that led them to stop speaking to one another for an extended period of time.—
Scott Huver,
PEOPLE,
12 Dec. 2025
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American forces built about a dozen bases of varying size in Greenland during and after the war.—
Stephen J. Beard,
USA Today,
15 Jan. 2026
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And analysts say that countries, including smaller developing markets, may be more wary of irking China, even to protect the growth of their own manufacturing sectors – especially when contending with a US trade war.—
Simone McCarthy,
CNN Money,
15 Jan. 2026
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Some clerics support political reform and greater social freedoms, others demand harsher crackdowns on dissent, and many focus primarily on preserving their own institutions and financial interests.—
Narges Bajoghli,
Time,
13 Jan. 2026
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The state Supreme Court upheld the provision 5-2 along party lines, with dissents coming from the two Republican justices, David Overstreet and Lisa Holder White.—
Jeremy Gorner,
Chicago Tribune,
13 Jan. 2026
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“Discord.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/discord. Accessed 17 Jan. 2026.
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