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
The tour reunites brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher after years of disharmony and has led to some speculation about whether there will be more from the band after the concerts.
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Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 3 July 2025
Ferran is just as compelling when such vibrancy and vitality gives way to dejection and disharmony as her aspiring writing career grinds to a halt and her health starts to deteriorate.
—Jon O'Brien, IndieWire, 2 May 2025
Without a clear strategy to ensure all creative aspects of campaigns and the accompanying messaging work together, the various elements of a brand can create disharmony.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2025
That reflects the department itself, which exuded disharmony from the beginning of the season.
—Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, The Athletic, 23 Jan. 2025
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Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 3 July 2025
Ferran is just as compelling when such vibrancy and vitality gives way to dejection and disharmony as her aspiring writing career grinds to a halt and her health starts to deteriorate.
—Jon O'Brien, IndieWire, 2 May 2025
Without a clear strategy to ensure all creative aspects of campaigns and the accompanying messaging work together, the various elements of a brand can create disharmony.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2025
That reflects the department itself, which exuded disharmony from the beginning of the season.
—Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, The Athletic, 23 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disharmony
Noun
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When a mother tree is felled, the survival rate of many of its seedlings may be drastically reduced, a process not unlike the reciprocal feedback loop of Yggdrasill, whose deterioration in response to discord in the nine realms spells cosmic collapse.—
Ellen Walker,
JSTOR Daily,
3 Sep. 2025
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Growing discord between Democrats over the ongoing war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas flared during the second day of the Democratic National Committee's (DNC) summer meeting.—
Staff,
FOXNews.com,
28 Aug. 2025
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In addition to Kalima’s holograph, the Stories of Survival exhibit also features objects from those who survived such strife in Armenia, Bosnia, Cambodia, Iraq, Rwanda, South Sudan and Syria.—
Kelly Haramis,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Sep. 2025
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The Chrisley family's grand return to TV after Todd and Julie's pardon releases from prison is marred by family strife that grew during the years of lockup.—
Ryan Coleman September 2,
EW.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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That means that the iX3 will regeneratively brake for the overwhelming majority of the time—just 5–10 percent of braking events should require the friction brakes, we're told.—
Jonathan M. Gitlin,
ArsTechnica,
5 Sep. 2025
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Entrenched Chinese foreign policy positions, including territorial disputes and industrial subsidies that have flooded foreign markets with cheap exports, will likely remain friction points, experts say, while India's deep distrust of China will not dissipate because of one brief meeting.—
James Pomfret,
USA Today,
5 Sep. 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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Many of the tunes including sprawling intros and jam sessions, all melded together with discordance, reverb and instrumental solos.—
Audrey Gibbs,
The Tennessean,
2 July 2025
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And if someone begins filming you during the potential conflict?—
Toria Sheffield,
PEOPLE,
7 Sep. 2025
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The country is also the site of the Western Hemisphere’s longest-running internal armed conflict, and constitutionally requires all men between the ages of 18 and 24 to undertake some form of military service.—
Rebecca Johns,
Miami Herald,
6 Sep. 2025
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When there is a schism in trade relations, the deficit country [is] at an advantage.—
Nick Mordowanec,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Sep. 2025
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An early 20th century conflict for control of the publishing board incited a schism that led to the formation of a new denomination and its own publishing agency, the National Baptist Convention of America and RH Boyd Publishing.—
Liam Adams,
The Tennessean,
21 Aug. 2025
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All Quiet on the Western Front is a visually graphic portrayal of the horrors of war, earning four Academy Awards in 2023 — including Best International Feature Film.—
Jacqueline Weiss,
PEOPLE,
7 Sep. 2025
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Presumably, this is because those players lost their ‘development’ period — their early teenage years — to the war.—
Michael Cox,
New York Times,
6 Sep. 2025
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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 10 Sep. 2025.
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