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Recent Examples of disharmony After signing a seven-year, $161 million free agent contract in December 2008, Sabathia’s penchant for leadership and camaraderie was exactly what the Yankees needed at a time of great concern regarding disharmony in the ball club’s chemistry. Wayne G. McDonnell, Jr., Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025 Amid a troubling spell of injuries and a cacophony of speculation about disharmony in their dressing room, the Vancouver Canucks have won just four games in a month. Chris Johnston, The Athletic, 8 Jan. 2025 There have been reports in the Indian media on disharmony within the India team throughout the series, unsurprising given the team straddles different generations, and surely fracturing further amid having lost six of their last eight Tests. Tristan Lavalette, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2025 And that means the football schedule can create disharmony at home. Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 11 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for disharmony
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Noun
  • More: Trump says US intel briefed him about how Iran wants to assassinate him to sow discord in US Tehran’s regional power also has been eroded by the death of its strongest regional ally, Syrian strongman Bashir al-Assad.
    Josh Meyer, USA Today, 23 June 2025
  • Success, progress and wins tend to naturally quiet the discord.
    Joe Altieri, Forbes.com, 20 June 2025
Noun
  • The lasting impact of the 1953 coup While the U.S. and Iran have butt heads over a range of issues since the 1979 revolution and hostage crisis, including years of strife over Iran’s nuclear program, the 1953 coup remains a critical event still invoked in modern Iran.
    Kathryn Palmer, USA Today, 24 June 2025
  • Keeping the family home can feel like an important legacy to offer to your children, but not if ownership creates strife that imperils family relationships.
    Liz Weston, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 June 2025
Noun
  • This fundamental difference has contributed to growing friction, along with her friend's disregard for boundaries.
    Ashley Vega, People.com, 21 June 2025
  • Both the novelist’s oeuvre and the HBO drama are set among the upper echelons of New York society in the late 19th century, documenting frictions both large (the rise of a new industrial elite) and small (imperceptible breaches of etiquette).
    Alison Herman, Variety, 20 June 2025
Noun
  • Luckily, director Kate Dumoulin helps smooth over much of the discordance.
    Matthew J. Palm, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 June 2025
  • Editors’ Picks An editor at Fast Company, a magazine about business, technology and design, was among the first to notice the discordance.
    Adeel Hassan, New York Times, 4 May 2025
Noun
  • During the recent conflict, the Israeli Air Force demonstrated an impressive capability to reach targets deep inside Iran while relying on its aged Boeing 707 tankers for refueling its fighter jets.
    Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
  • Despite the flare-up, Wedbush technology analyst Dan Ives expects the conflict between Musk and Mr. Trump to die down moving forward.
    Anne Marie D. Lee, CBS News, 1 July 2025
Noun
  • Some have suggested the schism could fracture the president’s coalition.
    Brett Samuels, The Hill, 18 June 2025
  • Trump’s openness to a possible U.S. involvement has led to schisms within the Republican community and beyond, and has notably impacted his allyship with a certain former Fox News host.
    Rebecca Schneid, Time, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • Culiacan, which has around 1 million residents and is the capital of western Mexico's Sinaloa state, has been wrought by a war for control between two rival drug trafficking groups of the Sinaloa cartel – Los Chapitos and La Mayiza.
    Sophia Compton, FOXNews.com, 1 July 2025
  • Iran Offer The flare-up between India and Pakistan has been overshadowed globally by the war between Israel and Iran, with the United States also joining strikes against Tehran's nuclear program.
    Jennifer Cunningham, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 July 2025

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“Disharmony.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disharmony. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.

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