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
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Multitracked saxophones swarm over a pit of molten bass frequencies, slipping between sentimental consonance—you might momentarily be reminded of Vangelis’ Blade Runner score—and eerie discord.—
Philip Sherburne,
Pitchfork,
25 Mar. 2026
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But their top officials do not always agree, and some say the discord has hurt how well the agencies can serve patients and led the call center to repeatedly misjudge the severity of some calls.—
Jenny Gathright,
Washington Post,
19 Mar. 2026
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In providing that space for both music and wellness, sound healing brings audiences into a collective world for escape from both the external strife of the world and their own messy interiority.—
Britt Julious,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Mar. 2026
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This has actually caused a lot of internal strife within the community.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
29 Mar. 2026
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Intensifying intraparty friction isn't likely to help with that effort.—
Zachary Schermele,
USA Today,
28 Mar. 2026
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One point of friction is a gimmick that California and other states use to maximize federal funds — special taxes on health care providers, which are used to draw down more federal matching payments in return for state promises to offset the taxes with additional reimbursements to providers.—
Dan Walters,
Mercury News,
27 Mar. 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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Earlier Monday, Turkey's defense ministry announced that the alliance's air defenses deployed in the eastern Mediterranean had, for a fourth time during the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, intercepted an Iranian missile that had entered its airspace.—
Lucia I Suarez Sang,
CBS News,
31 Mar. 2026
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Neither has served in an active military capacity during the current conflict.—
Adeola Adeosun,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Mar. 2026
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The schism runs through a deceptively simple assumption.—
Paul M. Sutter,
Scientific American,
27 Mar. 2026
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The history of religion, with its thousands of schisms and reformations, is full of pilgrims who, rather than discard their relationship with their sacred text, have found purpose, clarity, and community through defiance.—
Séamas O'Reilly,
Vulture,
26 Mar. 2026
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Thousands have been killed since the war began in late February, including about 1,500 people in Iran and over 1,000 in Lebanon, where Israel is moving to occupy territory.—
Christopher Cann,
USA Today,
26 Mar. 2026
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The decision is the latest step taken by Lebanon's government against Iran after the most recent Israel-Hezbollah war broke out on March 2, during which Israel's military killed several members of Iran's Revolutionary Guard in strikes around the long-suffering country.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
26 Mar. 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 1 Apr. 2026.
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