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Recent Examples of disharmonious
Precisely for this reason, what is particularly important is the undertone of the brown lipstick, which can be pinkish or orange to create a continuum with the complexion, avoiding creating disharmonious contrasts.
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Beatrice Zocchi, Vogue, 28 Oct. 2024
Yet Gracia, encouraged by the priests to suffer in imitation of Christ and for the promise of eternal afterlife, resolved to stay in disharmonious matrimony with Tadaoki.
—Nicholas Liu, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2024
Despite Elizabeth being uniquely disharmonious, her particular brand of chaos feels very true to New York’s creative world, in which antiquated systems reign supreme and difficult personalities are always jockeying for space.
—Elaina Patton, NBC News, 20 Mar. 2024
Unusually for a company that has been disharmonious in the months since Musk launched his takeover bid, Twitter’s rank and file employees have not flocked to support Zatko’s whistleblowing efforts.
—WIRED, 25 Aug. 2022
Correspondent David Pogue looks at how music copyrights have become an increasingly disharmonious area of litigation.
—CBS News, 31 Mar. 2022
Here is a transcript of relevant passages from her speech:
Change, especially change that requires legislative solutions, will not occur easily given our vast, inherently disharmonious, and increasingly polarized country.
—Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic, 29 May 2018
In the meantime, our Mr. Mooney slithers into the pub, bringing the disharmonious vibe of a swinging, sexed-up London into this frozen outpost of the middle-class 1950s.
—Ben Brantley, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2018
But upstart vanguardists like Charles Ives and Henry Cowell instead took an idiosyncratic and disharmonious approach that shirked European models.
—William Robin, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2017
Beatrice Zocchi, Vogue, 28 Oct. 2024
Yet Gracia, encouraged by the priests to suffer in imitation of Christ and for the promise of eternal afterlife, resolved to stay in disharmonious matrimony with Tadaoki.
—Nicholas Liu, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2024
Despite Elizabeth being uniquely disharmonious, her particular brand of chaos feels very true to New York’s creative world, in which antiquated systems reign supreme and difficult personalities are always jockeying for space.
—Elaina Patton, NBC News, 20 Mar. 2024
Unusually for a company that has been disharmonious in the months since Musk launched his takeover bid, Twitter’s rank and file employees have not flocked to support Zatko’s whistleblowing efforts.
—WIRED, 25 Aug. 2022
Correspondent David Pogue looks at how music copyrights have become an increasingly disharmonious area of litigation.
—CBS News, 31 Mar. 2022
Here is a transcript of relevant passages from her speech:
Change, especially change that requires legislative solutions, will not occur easily given our vast, inherently disharmonious, and increasingly polarized country.
—Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic, 29 May 2018
In the meantime, our Mr. Mooney slithers into the pub, bringing the disharmonious vibe of a swinging, sexed-up London into this frozen outpost of the middle-class 1950s.
—Ben Brantley, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2018
But upstart vanguardists like Charles Ives and Henry Cowell instead took an idiosyncratic and disharmonious approach that shirked European models.
—William Robin, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disharmonious
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Centuries of grime has been wiped away to reveal an immaculate but aesthetically dissonant house of worship: a Gothic church that glistens.Joshua Berlinger, CNN, 7 Dec. 2024
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Just as the concert’s success depends on most musicians playing correctly despite a few dissonant notes, a blockchain’s integrity relies on honest nodes reaching consensus even when some nodes fail or act maliciously.Gary Weinstein, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
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Setting Discordant Personal Goals A 2023 study published in Current Psychology finds that partners’ inharmonious goals can have detrimental effects on relationships.Mark Travers, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
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For sixteen hours a week, Valentine hopes to share some melody in a place that, for some, can feel inharmonious.Washington Post, Washington Post, 24 July 2021
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The news, predictably, was unpleasant: the Olympic roster was about to leak, and Clark wasn’t on it.Sean Gregory, TIME, 10 Dec. 2024
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Almost everyone is bitter, unpleasant, scheming, self-centered, manipulative or awful (or just plain crazy).Erik Kain, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
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While Trump did have certain discordant regulatory inclinations of his own, his late-term optics in part reflect the Administrative Procedure Act’s requirements: eliminating two rules for every new one often necessitated new rules to implement the removals.Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
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Not in the factual sense, because that would be crazy, but closer to how fashionistas know to add one discordant accessory.Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2024
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Those songs remind Omara of real people and real events, political interludes whose senselessness and brutality have left unmusical lacunae in her life.Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2023
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His parents were unmusical Russian-Jewish immigrants who ran various businesses with mixed success.The Economist, The Economist, 3 Oct. 2019
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While Queen seemed resistant to the crowd’s raucous support of the home team, Willard seemed to acknowledge that the first away game from Xfinity Center in College Park not involving a neutral venue impacted the players.Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun, 8 Dec. 2024
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In the wake of the Kennedy assassination, many sporting events were called off, and the raucous, patriotic annual match between the two service academies nearly met the same fate.Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Dec. 2024
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Rufo should know this, at which point someone who caucuses with the right should be pleased to keep his own, frequently laudatory views (there’s much that’s disagreeable about DEI, ESG and other acronyms) separate from government force at all levels.John Tamny, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024
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Some repel deer with a disagreeable taste, such as hot pepper.Luke Miller, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Nov. 2024
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Red One seemed like a bizarre experiment, some sort of action film-adjacent Santa Claus movie starring Dwayne Johnson and Chris Evans that almost seemed to be a sort of parody of itself.Paul Tassi, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
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Her material consists of tales of her bizarre upbringing, highly unconventional family, and filterless confessions of her time on this filthy planet.Matt Grobar, Deadline, 17 Dec. 2024
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“Disharmonious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disharmonious. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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