as in frictions
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 conflicts
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 discords
April Uchitel, Flow Space, 6 Aug. 2025
Noun
Your dedicated Slack channels, private discords and endless Reddit threads.
—April Uchitel, Flow Space, 6 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for discords
Noun
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Indexing or eliminating caps would shift the burden from those least able to pay and smooth market frictions hurting families of all ages.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
27 Sep. 2025
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Because of these frictions, more and more types of companies that function across borders are looking to stablecoins as practical tools.—
Aaron Stanley,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Morrisey hasn’t withdrawn his executive order, which conflicts with the state’s immunization law, and has generated confusion and uncertainty.—
Dhruv Khullar,
New Yorker,
24 Sep. 2025
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Work culture, tennis or otherwise, rewards busyness and often self-sacrifice, which conflicts with self-care and mental health.—
Bryan Robinson,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
Verb
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But over-protective matriarch Gladys Gibbes (Octavia Spencer) is a celebrity chef who clashes with Rachel.—
Brent Lang,
Variety,
19 Sep. 2025
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Coerced into a conversion therapy program, Jared clashes with its hostile leader (Joel Edgerton), igniting a transformative journey of self-acceptance.—
Alex Gurley,
People.com,
31 Aug. 2025
Noun
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But aggregate consumer spending masks schisms below the surface.—
Sarah Min,
CNBC,
2 Oct. 2025
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This brings us to the differences between the characters, which point to pivotal schisms between Anderson and Pynchon as storytellers.—
Andrew McGowan,
Variety,
26 Sep. 2025
Noun
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In one scene, real footage of Benjamin Netanyahu appears on the television of Anat’s father, who is suffering post-traumatic flashbacks from his own wars.—
Gershom Gorenberg,
The Atlantic,
3 Oct. 2025
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The reasons for that lack of credibility extend well beyond the campus speech wars of the past few decades.—
Jay Caspian Kang,
New Yorker,
3 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Rachel Goldberg-Polin emerged as a moral voice, urging an end to the war and healing for Israel's internal divisions.—
Romina Ruiz-Goiriena,
USA Today,
4 Oct. 2025
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And yet, for all the buoyancy onstage, Sultana’s party was already riven with deep divisions and suffering from self-defeating impulses familiar to observers of the American progressive left.—
Arash Azizi,
The Atlantic,
4 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Annie says that trust doesn’t exist in this game, but Sophi dissents.—
Nick Caruso,
TVLine,
1 Oct. 2025
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Countering Wall Street expectations for multiple dissents, the rate-setting Federal Open Market Committee on Wednesday voted 11 to 1 in favor of the reduction.—
Jeff Cox,
CNBC,
18 Sep. 2025
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From Zehetmair’s searching dissonances, the SPCO moved into Brahms’ Double Concerto, performed by concertmaster Steven Copes and principal cello Julie Albers.—
Sheila Regan,
Twin Cities,
13 Sep. 2025
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Although the relocation of a very Nordic communitarian milieu to a British setting creates its own cultural dissonances, the end result is a nifty ethical puzzle about balancing the needs of individuals versus those of the community.—
Leslie Felperin,
HollywoodReporter,
7 Sep. 2025
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“Discords.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/discords. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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