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
Eventually, Ash finds in herself a gradual attraction, not only to religious practice but to the wild disharmonies of belief.
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Lauren Boersma Harris,
New Yorker,
24 Dec. 2025
Being chained to the baseline offensively has been a topic of disharmony for Watson in the past, though.
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Bennett Durando,
Denver Post,
24 Sep. 2025
The two companies have had a long-term business relationship, but there have been occasional periods of disharmony.
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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.
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Valerie Mesa,
People.com,
27 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for disharmony
Lauren Boersma Harris,
New Yorker,
24 Dec. 2025
Being chained to the baseline offensively has been a topic of disharmony for Watson in the past, though.
—
Bennett Durando,
Denver Post,
24 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
See All Example Sentences for disharmony
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disharmony
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Despite the discord, the regime is likely to have the final say.
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What should have been a celebratory moment involving the city’s beach ended in discord.
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His Yanks might have won the World Series in 1994, Showalter’s third year, if that World Series hadn’t been canceled by labor strife.
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The tabloids have been extra vicious of late regarding your family strife.
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All five candidates focused on ensuring the person selected is properly qualified and prepared for the position and that there wouldn’t be friction between roles like the city manager and City Council.
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The goal is not novelty but speed and friction removal.
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Part of that discordance might be the fact that as a genre, rock has historically been difficult to define.
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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.
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His father, Manuel Cepeda, was a prominent figure in the Colombian Communist Party, and was assassinated in 1994 during a particularly bloody era in Colombia's internal conflict.
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The town’s predicament highlights the limits of any ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel, and the lingering hardship faced by residents whose lives have been upended by years of conflict.
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Some of 2026’s primaries are showing a new schism — and the results should be ringing alarm bells across the network.
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The schism mirrors a similar one running through Silicon Valley.
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Between February and August, fallout from the Iran war will have destroyed 800 million barrels of oil demand, JPMorgan estimates.
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Oil tanker traffic through Hormuz before the war might represent the high point for transits for the foreseeable future, said Helima Croft, head of global commodity strategy at RBC Capital Markets.
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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.
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“Disharmony.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disharmony. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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