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
Gliding between sublime melodies and grimy, guttural dissonance, the record is cinematic in its acoustic grandeur and intimate in its inspection – à la Mitski and Anohni and the Johnsons.
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Sophie Williams, Billboard, 29 May 2025
This dissonance can trigger feelings of guilt, shame and complicity, akin to moral degradation experienced by soldiers unable to act in accordance with their conscience.
—Yujia Zhu, Forbes.com, 8 July 2025
From my vantage point, as someone intimately familiar with its surroundings, Delaney Hall's existence stands in opposition to the values of the very community where it is located, and the dissonance is staggering.
—Annell López, Time, 12 May 2025
Dropping explosive onomatopoeia on enemies while the little girl giggles creates a laugh-out-level point of dissonance.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 1 July 2025
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Sophie Williams, Billboard, 29 May 2025
This dissonance can trigger feelings of guilt, shame and complicity, akin to moral degradation experienced by soldiers unable to act in accordance with their conscience.
—Yujia Zhu, Forbes.com, 8 July 2025
From my vantage point, as someone intimately familiar with its surroundings, Delaney Hall's existence stands in opposition to the values of the very community where it is located, and the dissonance is staggering.
—Annell López, Time, 12 May 2025
Dropping explosive onomatopoeia on enemies while the little girl giggles creates a laugh-out-level point of dissonance.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 1 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dissonance
Noun
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Social discord, financial struggles, and conflicts abroad continue to consume our country’s time, energy and resources.—
Matthew Beddingfield,
Scientific American,
2 Aug. 2025
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Teammates jumped into the fray to helped quell the discord.—
Pete Grathoff,
Kansas City Star,
29 July 2025
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Creativity without friction becomes an echo chamber.—
Stephanie Dillon,
Rolling Stone,
7 Aug. 2025
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This creates massive friction for mainstream adoption.—
Boaz Sobrado,
Forbes.com,
6 Aug. 2025
Noun
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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
Noun
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In Swift's 2008 song, Romeo and Juliet embark on a giddy romance and ultimately overcome the strife between their families to get married.—
Rachel Raposas,
People.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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These strange yet sublime figures offer an escape from a world that’s become increasingly misunderstood amid raging geopolitical strife.—
Natasha Gural,
Forbes.com,
1 Aug. 2025
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Ukrainian officials rejected this position, stating that Ukraine did not initiate the conflict and that only the Russian president has the authority to order a full military withdrawal.—
Katya Soldak,
Forbes.com,
19 Aug. 2025
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Peace talks on the Russia-Ukraine conflict took place at the White House.—
Rebecca Morin,
USA Today,
19 Aug. 2025
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Despite Azerbaijan’s obvious victory, an actual peace agreement has evaded the two sides since the September 2023 war.—
Brady Knox,
The Washington Examiner,
19 Aug. 2025
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Both wars for territory and the destabilization of neighbors swiftly destroy wealth.—
S. C. M. Paine,
Foreign Affairs,
19 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The Epstein controversy has created a schism between President Donald Trump and his MAGA base.—
Sudiksha Kochi,
USA Today,
12 Aug. 2025
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There remains a wide schism between customer data availability and leveraging customer information to deliver meaningful financial guidance.—
Jody Bhagat,
Forbes.com,
25 July 2025
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Busby makes not a single allusion, nor even a hint, at the wholesale destruction, misery and pain of not hundreds, but thousands of African-American families attributable to Hoover’s vicious stranglehold on the city’s South and West sides in the name of drug warfare for untold years.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
12 Aug. 2025
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But even in the face of evolving modes of warfare, airpower’s inherent advantages endure.—
DAVID A. DEPTULA,
Foreign Affairs,
11 Aug. 2025
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“Dissonance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dissonance. Accessed 23 Aug. 2025.
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