discording

verb

present participle of discord
as in conflicting
to be out of harmony or agreement usually noticeably the evangelist's lavish lifestyle discords with his professed religious beliefs

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  1. conflicting
  2. clashing
  3. colliding
Verb
  • Smart investing means listening to all the regional voices, trusting none of them completely and remembering that the Fed is not one oracle but a committee of humans with conflicting spreadsheets and a new boss still learning how to manage them.
    — Ivan Illan, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
  • Taking so many positions means the president can’t be fully wrong while letting the public fix on different, albeit often conflicting, statements that can reinforce their own beliefs.
    — Will Weissert, Fortune, 2 July 2026
Definition of conflicting
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  • After clashing over the budget and the electoral law, Fils-Aimé and the electoral council finally agreed on a $120 million budget, down from an initial proposal of $250 million.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 10 July 2026
  • But Meta’s scramble to make its AI offerings more appealing is clashing with concerns that users already have about its platforms, which allegedly addict users to generate endless data that now fuels its AI models.
    — Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 10 July 2026
Definition of clashing
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  • These two masters of image management provided colliding—utopian versus dystopian—scenes at contrasting Fourth of July weekend mega events.
    — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Time, 8 July 2026
  • Outcomes and distribution are colliding in how agents get sold, too.
    — Harshil Shah, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
Definition of colliding
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“Discording.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/discording. Accessed 12 Jul. 2026.

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