as in discord
a lack of agreement or harmony
troubling signs of disunity within the normally peaceful organization
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Recent Examples of disunity
Republicans say the Democratic disunity underscores the clear margin by which the GOP won the shutdown.
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Niall Stanage, The Hill, 12 Nov. 2025
This deficiency directly contributes to disunity, hinders progress, and impedes our ability to deliver the quality instruction necessary to produce career and college-ready students.
—Rebecca Noel, Charlotte Observer, 8 Oct. 2025
The disunity within Ukraine comes at a time when Russian forces are escalating large-scale missile and drone strikes in Kyiv and across the country.
—Chris Massaro, FOXNews.com, 23 July 2025
This disunity has prevented the EU from using its immense leverage to good effect.
—Josep Borrell Fontelles, Foreign Affairs, 27 June 2025
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Niall Stanage, The Hill, 12 Nov. 2025
This deficiency directly contributes to disunity, hinders progress, and impedes our ability to deliver the quality instruction necessary to produce career and college-ready students.
—Rebecca Noel, Charlotte Observer, 8 Oct. 2025
The disunity within Ukraine comes at a time when Russian forces are escalating large-scale missile and drone strikes in Kyiv and across the country.
—Chris Massaro, FOXNews.com, 23 July 2025
This disunity has prevented the EU from using its immense leverage to good effect.
—Josep Borrell Fontelles, Foreign Affairs, 27 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disunity
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Celebrate with an activity that allows for big release of energies, something athletic or competitive; a sedentary pleasure could lead to discord.—
Magi Helena,
Dallas Morning News,
14 Feb. 2026
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The drafts mention marital discord between Gates and his then-wife Melinda.—
John Liu,
CNN Money,
4 Feb. 2026
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Beyond the looming labor strife, the regional sports network (RSN) model has been floundering for many teams.—
Meghan Montemurro,
Chicago Tribune,
16 Feb. 2026
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The film vaguely follows the basic outline of the first half of the novel, heavily streamlining the twisted tale of family strife and generational trauma into a more conventional tragic romance centered squarely on Catherine and Heathcliff.—
Wilson Chapman,
IndieWire,
13 Feb. 2026
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There are more overtly sexy moments in Fennell’s movie — the physical intimacy is ratcheted up significantly from the book — but this scene underlines the Brontë’s themes of desire and repression — and the friction between them — that imprinted on the filmmaker as a teen.—
Angelique Jackson,
Variety,
13 Feb. 2026
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Ice surfaces develop a thin, mobile surface layer, sometimes called a quasi-liquid or premelted layer, that reduces friction and enables sliding.—
Daisy Dobrijevic,
Space.com,
13 Feb. 2026
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There are still some trustbusters in the administration, especially at the FTC, which has avoided being pulled into messy lobbyist fights and White House schisms.—
Liz Hoffman,
semafor.com,
14 Feb. 2026
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The fracturing of the television audience parallels the schisms in America’s political culture, with viewers and voters increasingly sheltering in partisan echo chambers.—
Karrin Vasby Anderson,
Washington Post,
10 Feb. 2026
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His party successfully capitalized on rising nationalism fueled by a deadly border conflict between Thailand and Cambodia last year, economic woes and uncertainty over Thailand’s trade relationship with the United States, and built up a strong local support base.—
Helen Regan,
CNN Money,
17 Feb. 2026
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Units often operate across wider areas than in past conflicts.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
17 Feb. 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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The term of art for this sort of battlefield confusion is fog of war.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
18 Feb. 2026
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At least 77 people were killed and dozens injured in various attacks, mostly by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, in densely populated areas, according to Sudan Doctors Network, a group that tracks violence through the war.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
18 Feb. 2026
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Domestically, all kinds of dissent can be deemed a security threat.—
Andy Browne,
semafor.com,
16 Feb. 2026
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Ahead of this week’s trip, William will undoubtedly have been briefed about Saudi Arabia, which has been widely criticized for its human rights record, its suppression of women and where protest and political dissent are punished.—
Yuliya Talmazan,
NBC news,
14 Feb. 2026
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