as in discord
a lack of agreement or harmony
a striking inharmony between the evangelist's professed spiritual concerns and his materialistic pleasures
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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 -
Officials say a goal of the attacks is to undermine support for Ukraine, spread fear and discord in European societies and drain investigative resources.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
12 Mar. 2026
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While the tension among the Forsyte brothers and their sons, Jo and Soames, has continued to cause strife and gossip amid dinners and celebrations, other things have changed drastically.—
Aramide Tinubu,
Variety,
22 Mar. 2026
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These are all themes that seem especially timely in an era of ongoing political strife.—
CT Jones,
Rolling Stone,
22 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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With the conflict having disrupted much of the world's oil supplies, markets remain highly sensitive to any headline suggesting either escalation or diplomacy.—
Dylan Butts,
CNBC,
24 Mar. 2026
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Hercules C-130s are frequently used in Colombia to transport troops as part of the military's operations amid a six-decade-long internal conflict that has claimed more than 450,000 lives.—
Luis Jaime Acosta,
USA Today,
24 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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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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But the Nexstar-Tegna deal has also created a schism in conservative media, with Newsmax and One America News Network lobbying hard against the deal.—
Brian Stelter,
CNN Money,
19 Mar. 2026
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The schism surfaced in interviews the Union-Tribune did with nearly 30 veterans representing the Navy, Marines, Army and Air Force, men and women whose ages ranged from the early 30s to early 80s.—
Gary Robbins,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
18 Mar. 2026
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“Inharmony.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inharmony. Accessed 28 Mar. 2026.
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