as in discord
a lack of agreement or harmony
there was friction between the two sides of the family
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Recent Examples of friction
Epic hopes that by reducing the friction, patients will be able to access their records more easily and authorize sharing more swiftly.
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Alexis Kayser, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Sep. 2025
Removing this friction creates immediate compounding value where opportunities become the next big thing in the industry.
—Jason Phillips, USA Today, 24 Sep. 2025
The studio has also run into friction with creatives.
—Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 24 Sep. 2025
One Battle shows solidarity across lines of race and class, but also the friction inherent to those alliances.
—Paul A. Thompson, Pitchfork, 24 Sep. 2025
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Alexis Kayser, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Sep. 2025
Removing this friction creates immediate compounding value where opportunities become the next big thing in the industry.
—Jason Phillips, USA Today, 24 Sep. 2025
The studio has also run into friction with creatives.
—Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 24 Sep. 2025
One Battle shows solidarity across lines of race and class, but also the friction inherent to those alliances.
—Paul A. Thompson, Pitchfork, 24 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for friction
Recent Examples of Synonyms for friction
Noun
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Disboard lists many public discord servers and many young coders use the site, contributing a different demographic of coders.—
Stephen Cass,
IEEE Spectrum,
23 Sep. 2025
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But warning signs of discord between networks and affiliates had been flashing for years.—
Dade Hayes,
Deadline,
20 Sep. 2025
Noun
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As that interior strife becomes more evident, the beautiful mountain village gives way to rot, decay, and of course, actual monsters.—
Vincent Acovino,
NPR,
22 Sep. 2025
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Drawing on his own proprietary study of 500 years of history, the founder of the world’s largest hedge fund, Bridgewater Associates, points to a predictable 80-year cycle that suggests an era of significant global and internal strife is upon us.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
22 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Fearing conflict or rejection will only complicate things under the Sagittarius moon.—
USA TODAY,
USA Today,
28 Sep. 2025
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On one side of the conflict was Skeet and many of his immediate family members and longtime allies; on the other was Skeet’s own nephew, Constable Brandon Jones, who came to represent those who had run afoul of his own family.—
Mitch Moxley,
Rolling Stone,
27 Sep. 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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The titan Chronos, patriarch to all the gods, returns to get revenge for his imprisonment at the hands of his children, taking control of Tartarus and simultaneously waging war on the mortal world via Mount Olympus.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
27 Sep. 2025
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Mature private capital markets and strategic acquirers with heavy war-chests allow companies to stay private for longer, or forever.—
Aman Ghei,
Fortune,
27 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Did all roads have to lead to schism and war?—
Kornel Chang
September 19,
Literary Hub,
19 Sep. 2025
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The quiet schism in sports over whether to acknowledge Kirk as an important figure cut down in a senseless murder may reflect today’s uneasy balance between conservative power and the norms of what are often regarded as apolitical spaces, particularly by conservatives themselves.—
Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
16 Sep. 2025
Noun
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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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The drone is planned to be capable of executing precision strike, ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance) targeting, electronic warfare, and offensive and defensive counter air missions.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
21 Sep. 2025
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The Russian incursions into NATO airspace builds on a years-long hybrid warfare against countries in the alliance, defined by acts of sabotage, cyberattacks, destruction of infrastructure and attacks on individuals.—
Laura Kelly,
The Hill,
19 Sep. 2025
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“Friction.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/friction. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.
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