as in discord
a lack of agreement or harmony
the dissonance between what we are told and what we see with our own eyes
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Recent Examples of dissonance
Still, out of that dissonance came an aesthetic cohesion for one of the most consummate rap songs of 1997, and of her career.
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Steven J. Horowitz, Vulture, 11 Apr. 2025
The severance procedure—by erasing personal memories during work hours—creates a fragmented sense of self that leads to emotional dissonance.
—Benjamin Laker, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
Produced by Rodney Jones, the Detroit hip-hop-inflected and gospel-infused track explores moving with life when you’re supposed to instead of forcing harmony where there is only dissonance.
—Michael Saponara, Billboard, 8 Apr. 2025
But perhaps behind the jokes was a recognition of a different kind of dissonance.
—D. Watkins, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2025
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Steven J. Horowitz, Vulture, 11 Apr. 2025
The severance procedure—by erasing personal memories during work hours—creates a fragmented sense of self that leads to emotional dissonance.
—Benjamin Laker, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
Produced by Rodney Jones, the Detroit hip-hop-inflected and gospel-infused track explores moving with life when you’re supposed to instead of forcing harmony where there is only dissonance.
—Michael Saponara, Billboard, 8 Apr. 2025
But perhaps behind the jokes was a recognition of a different kind of dissonance.
—D. Watkins, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dissonance
Noun
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That was as close as Mrs. Obama got to directly addressing the rumors of marital discord.—
Claire Moses,
New York Times,
10 Apr. 2025
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But right now, there's no discord between he and I, which is great.—
Shania Russell,
EW.com,
2 Apr. 2025
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It is designed to mimic a shark’s skin by reducing friction and smoothing out turbulent airflow.—
Michael Verdon,
Robb Report,
3 May 2025
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So there’s plenty of interpersonal friction happening long before the murder takes place.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
30 Apr. 2025
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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
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Sachs plays on the discordance between his naturalistic approach and the theatricality of the project with meta elements like a quick glimpse of the crew or posed shots of the actors occasionally punctuating the conversation, accompanied by blasts of Mozart’s Requiem in D Minor.—
David Rooney,
The Hollywood Reporter,
27 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Attempting to rearrange these relationships is just going to cause marital strife for you.—
R. Eric Thomas,
Mercury News,
23 Apr. 2025
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For all the chaos and strife of the tariffs in the opening act of his second term, Trump’s U.S.-Canada-Mexico trade deal, which went into effect in 2020, and his negotiations with China during his first term indicate some ability not just to pick economic fights but to try to settle them.—
Jennifer M. Harris,
Foreign Affairs,
22 Apr. 2025
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Throughout the first fifteen months of the conflict, Israel’s behavior, specifically in refusing to allow sufficient amounts of aid into Gaza, drew international condemnation.—
Isaac Chotiner,
New Yorker,
2 May 2025
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Despite some conflicts over the direction the church should take, most experts don't expect the conclave to stretch beyond a few days.—
John Bacon,
USA Today,
2 May 2025
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With the outbreak of war in the spring of 1846, Arkansas was asked by the federal government to provide two units for service with the U.S. Army.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
3 May 2025
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The latter two retained the absolutist moral vision that had characterized Western stances at the beginning of the war, clashing with the U.S.’s new position.—
Brady Knox,
The Washington Examiner,
3 May 2025
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This meant that working within an executive structure which was not always aligned allowed schisms to grow and cliques to foster.—
Jacob Tanswell,
New York Times,
9 Apr. 2025
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There’s practically nothing that his Catholic foes, still smarting at the Church of England’s rejection of papal authority, won’t believe about the man who helped engineer the schism so that Henry (Damian Lewis) could divorce his first wife as part of his ongoing quest to beget a male heir.—
Inkoo Kang,
New Yorker,
30 Mar. 2025
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The idea is that these nodes can be quickly deployed where required by AUVs like Anduril's Dive-XL and then carry out surveillance and reconnaissance for anti-submarine and anti-ship warfare.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
26 Apr. 2025
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The group responded with the escalation of drone and missile warfare against the U.S. and Israel.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 Apr. 2025
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“Dissonance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dissonance. Accessed 12 May. 2025.
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