as in discord
a lack of agreement or harmony
a period of disharmony between the two groups
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Recent Examples of disharmony
There’s has been a lot of innuendo; talk of wrong directions and disharmony.
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Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2025
The two companies have had a long-term business relationship, but there have been occasional periods of disharmony.
—Dade Hayes, Deadline, 28 Aug. 2025
In tarot, the Seven of Swords often represents deception, betrayal or someone acting in secrecy, while The Lovers reversed can point to disharmony, conflict in relationships or choices made for the wrong reasons.
—Valerie Mesa, People.com, 27 Aug. 2025
But the real risks of Russian anger and alliance disharmony do not obviate the need for the deployments.
—Elbridge Colby, Foreign Affairs, 13 Aug. 2015
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Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2025
The two companies have had a long-term business relationship, but there have been occasional periods of disharmony.
—Dade Hayes, Deadline, 28 Aug. 2025
In tarot, the Seven of Swords often represents deception, betrayal or someone acting in secrecy, while The Lovers reversed can point to disharmony, conflict in relationships or choices made for the wrong reasons.
—Valerie Mesa, People.com, 27 Aug. 2025
But the real risks of Russian anger and alliance disharmony do not obviate the need for the deployments.
—Elbridge Colby, Foreign Affairs, 13 Aug. 2015
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disharmony
Noun
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But the movie's release was shrouded by speculation over discord between Lively and Baldoni.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
2 Apr. 2026
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Immediately after the Hamas attack, the mood at Beth El was sombre, but there were few signs of discord.—
Eyal Press,
New Yorker,
30 Mar. 2026
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The best investing strategy during periods of geopolitical strife is to have no strategy at all, said Jeff Sommer in The New York Times.—
The Week US,
TheWeek,
2 Apr. 2026
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Fans have also seemed to pick up on possible strife between Miller, 30, and Batula, who are very close friends on the show.—
Julia Moore,
PEOPLE,
30 Mar. 2026
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Later, romantic Venus squares transformative Pluto, stirring friction about recognition and resources in groups.—
Tarot.com,
Sun Sentinel,
3 Apr. 2026
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The challenge is not to retreat from circulation, but to insist that circulation be thought through, grounded in specific places and their conditions, and accountable, open to friction, contamination, and transformation rather than insulated coherence.—
Manuela Moscoso,
Artforum,
2 Apr. 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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But those expectations have since been upended as the Iran conflict has sent shockwaves through the global economy that are unlikely to unravel anytime soon, even if the war is brought to a rapid resolution.—
Joseph Wilkins,
CNBC,
7 Apr. 2026
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The laws of armed conflict allow attacks on civilian infrastructure only if the military advantage outweighs the civilian harm, legal scholars say.—
Compiled byDemocrat-Gazette stafffrom wire reports,
Arkansas Online,
6 Apr. 2026
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But over the past decade or so, major schisms have emerged.—
Andy Greene,
Rolling Stone,
31 Mar. 2026
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In the 2020s members of GAFCON and GSFA moved toward what some have seen as a schism with the Church of England and the more liberal provinces of the Anglican Communion.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
31 Mar. 2026
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But now many of those same factions are expressing open revulsion at the Iran war, rupturing relationships that were supposed to usher in a new international order.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
9 Apr. 2026
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The war on inflation could be in for a major setback due to the Iran war.—
Aimee Picchi,
CBS News,
9 Apr. 2026
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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
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“Disharmony.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disharmony. Accessed 11 Apr. 2026.
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