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disaccord

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verb

as in to conflict
to be out of harmony or agreement usually noticeably national security measures that disaccord with our cherished right to free expression

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Noun
  • Kirk was one of the slate of Republicans who called for more transparency around the Jeffrey Epstein files in a rare moment of discord within the party.
    Kinsey Crowley, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
  • However, the pair have had a history of discord.
    Erica Marrison, PEOPLE, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • None of it, Saddler considers, conflicted with her staunch Mormon faith.
    Enrique Limón, Time, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Lauryn, now 18, still isn’t allowed to see her, but says she’s conflicted about her feelings on it.
    CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Many of the tunes including sprawling intros and jam sessions, all melded together with discordance, reverb and instrumental solos.
    Audrey Gibbs, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
Verb
  • That event was still beset by confrontations, with someone jumping on a police officer, protesters smashing glass panes in the doors of the venue and members of the Proud Boys – a far-right group – clashing with demonstrators, according to local media reports.
    Curt Devine, CNN Money, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Cosmists who believed in technology as a messianic force clashed not just with the Svyatogor camp, but also with the communists, whose guiding ideology of Marxism-Leninism was predicated on the dismantling of age-old social systems to establish a novel world order.
    Tim Brinkhof, Big Think, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Our brains evolve against friction, which means challenges that are difficult enough to promote growth but not so overwhelming as to cause surrender.
    Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes.com, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Nevertheless, the deal appears to address the structural and competitive friction that has complicated the relationship between OpenAI and its largest investor, paving the way for the $500 billion startup to convert its for-profit arm into a public benefit corporation (PBC).
    Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • That moment of silence itself soon erupted into House strife, with shouting on the floor.
    Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Against the backdrop of the golden sand dunes in Ninh Thuan province, family strife boils over when a son’s dream to dance to the beat of his own heart pits him against his father’s wishes.
    Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The discordancy is so intriguing — like learning that Katharine Graham went to nude encounter sessions at Esalen, or Alan Greenspan was once in a Lynyrd Skynyrd cover band.
    New York Times, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2021
Noun
  • Netanyahu echoed the concern, warning that political violence aimed at silencing dissent undermines democratic values worldwide.
    Amanda Castro Hannah Parry Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Following her ouster, Comey warned that she was being made an example of in order to quell potential dissent within the DOJ.
    Kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 15 Sep. 2025
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“Disaccord.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disaccord. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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