as in strife
a lack of agreement or harmony
the discord between two of the members threatened to tear our team of researchers apart
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as in to conflict
to be out of harmony or agreement usually noticeably
the evangelist's lavish lifestyle discords with his professed religious beliefs
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Recent Examples of discord
Mark Z. Barabak, The Mercury News, 18 Mar. 2025
Right now, the apparent discord in the detectors’ sightings is confusing, to say the least.
—Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 12 Feb. 2025
Earlier this month, discord within the party broke out after Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) voted along with nine other Senate Democrats and one House Democrat to approve a House GOP funding measure in an effort to avoid a government shutdown.
—Julia Manchester, The Hill, 31 Mar. 2025
From taking your lighting to Clark Griswold-status to planting a towering oak smack dab on the property line, there are plenty of ways your garden can cause discord among the neighbors in record time.
—Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 29 Mar. 2025
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Noun
Kirk has a history of making false and outlandish statements, echoing President Trump’s lies about the 2020 election being stolen, promoting antisemitic tropes and stoking racial discord, among other ingredients of his political celebrityhood.
—Mark Z. Barabak, The Mercury News, 18 Mar. 2025
Right now, the apparent discord in the detectors’ sightings is confusing, to say the least.
—Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 12 Feb. 2025
Earlier this month, discord within the party broke out after Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) voted along with nine other Senate Democrats and one House Democrat to approve a House GOP funding measure in an effort to avoid a government shutdown.
—Julia Manchester, The Hill, 31 Mar. 2025
From taking your lighting to Clark Griswold-status to planting a towering oak smack dab on the property line, there are plenty of ways your garden can cause discord among the neighbors in record time.
—Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 29 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for discord
Noun
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After all, many characters that came to Thailand this season were searching for peace but instead found chaos, strife, and anxiety.—
Randall Colburn,
EW.com,
4 Apr. 2025
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The generals have been internationally isolated since the takeover and Myanmar's economy and basic services, including healthcare, have been reduced to tatters amid the strife.—
Reuters,
USA Today,
3 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Key themes from this year's winning selection range from politics, and gender, and migration, to conflict, and the climate crisis.—
Saman Shafiq,
USA Today,
27 Mar. 2025
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However, there is little consensus about what class of antidepressant works best, so international guidelines are often conflicting.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
16 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The club said a meeting would be held with fans but even that caused friction, with more letters and messages being published to ensure that was held.—
Sam Lee,
New York Times,
9 Apr. 2025
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Even with the friction that had festered more than ever this season, this was an extraordinary stance to take.—
Sam Amick,
New York Times,
10 Apr. 2025
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Without this deeper awareness, feedback may unintentionally clash with someone’s cultural expectations.—
Dr. Diane Hamilton,
Forbes.com,
5 Apr. 2025
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Throughout 2020, Bottoms often clashed with Kemp over COVID-19 policies during the height of protests against police brutality in communities of color.—
Ashleigh Fields,
The Hill,
4 Apr. 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
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Though ApoB may be the more accurate test—particularly for people with metabolic issues or others who may have discordance—there are some issues with the test in practice.—
Anuradha Varanasi,
Health,
12 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The schism is reaching a boiling point weeks before Oakland voters select a new permanent mayor — the only person who can hire or fire a city administrator.—
Shomik Mukherjee,
Mercury News,
1 Apr. 2025
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But Trump’s return to power has also laid bare a schism between the Left and the more pragmatic party leadership.—
David Sivak,
The Washington Examiner,
29 Mar. 2025
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The governing Liberals had appeared poised for a historic election defeat this year until Trump declared a trade war and challenged Canada’s sovereignty.—
Rob Gillies,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Mar. 2025
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Not only did the Secretary of Defense share details of a war plan on a group chat, but the general public and people serving in the military are now wondering what other group chats may exist, and what other information may be out there, shared accidentally.—
Paul Du Quenoy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Mar. 2025
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The Court largely voted along party lines, although Republican Justice Amy Coney Barrett crossed over to dissent with the three Democratic justices.—
Ian Millhiser,
Vox,
8 Apr. 2025
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With Democrats in the minority in both chambers of Congress and the Trump administration staffed by loyalists aiming to root out public and private dissent, the courts are liberals’ main venue for meaningful opposition to the president.—
Reid J. Epstein,
New York Times,
8 Apr. 2025
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“Discord.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/discord. Accessed 19 Apr. 2025.
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