as in discordances
a lack of agreement or harmony
the discordancy between the film's flamboyant cinematography and its otherwise somber mood
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The board has been envisioned as a technocratic body designed to resolve conflicts around the world, branching out from its original conception as a body designed to solve the war in Gaza.—
Brady Knox,
The Washington Examiner,
20 Jan. 2026 -
The toolkit avoids direct discussion of the cultural conflicts that have erupted in the MAGA era between red states that vote heavily Republican and blue states that favor Democrats.—
Cynthia Littleton,
Variety,
20 Jan. 2026
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By April, new tariffs and trade frictions triggered some of the most significant trade actions in decades.—
Joe Ngai,
Fortune,
11 Jan. 2026
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Trade and diplomatic frictions aside, Japanese companies are positive on business growth, with the Bank of Japan’s Tankan survey showing that sentiment among Japanese companies mostly improved in the fourth quarter, especially among small manufacturers.—
Lim Hui Jie,
CNBC,
17 Dec. 2025
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Your dedicated Slack channels, private discords and endless Reddit threads.—
April Uchitel,
Flow Space,
6 Aug. 2025
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Even as the White House keeps military options on the table for Greenland, the president highlighted his efforts to end wars overseas.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
21 Jan. 2026
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The Investment Case For Sports Ownership Major sports leagues in North America have survived pandemics, labor disputes, wars, and economic crises.—
Fred Hubler,
Forbes.com,
20 Jan. 2026
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Political schisms deepened and common ground collapsed.—
Scottie Andrew,
CNN Money,
17 Jan. 2026
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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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Four of the conservative justices have already issued dissents asserting these laws are unconstitutional.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
20 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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The Democratic Party is looking to the post-Trump era, too, with divisions that are considerably more public.—
Susan Page,
USA Today,
12 Jan. 2026
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Maybe baseball could pull off something similar, especially if a tournament were added within a 32-team expansion that creates eight, four-team divisions, from which some sort of divisional play-in format could fit a typical regular season schedule while creating an eight-team tournament field.—
Andy McCullough,
New York Times,
10 Jan. 2026
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The investigation into the killing of a US citizen by an ICE agent in Minneapolis this week is being complicated by clashes between federal and local officials, with the FBI taking control over the objections of Governor Tim Walz.—
WCCO Staff,
CBS News,
13 Jan. 2026
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The powerful Sun clashes with Chiron by way of your chatter quadrant and your habit zone, encouraging you to address a tricky situation at work or in your neighborhood with courageous calm.—
Tarot.com,
Baltimore Sun,
12 Jan. 2026
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