as in discord
a lack of agreement or harmony
a period of disharmony between the two groups
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Recent Examples of disharmony
Like all prior balance-of-power systems, this one will feature global dissent, disharmony, and great-power competition.
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Andrew Byers, Foreign Affairs, 1 July 2024
The data is conflated, and it is designed to create gender and racial disharmony.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 26 Apr. 2024
Written by Will Ainsley | The Beach Boys’ story is one of contradictions: genius and triviality, harmony and disharmony, creativity and commodity, Dennis Wilson and Al Jardine, Brian Wilson and Mike Love.
—Will Ainsley, SPIN, 24 May 2024
Ishibashi’s score — swooning and orchestral, flecked with hints of danger — underlines the feeling of disharmony, as do random gunshots exploding in the distance in the forest.
—Tim Grierson, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2024
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Andrew Byers, Foreign Affairs, 1 July 2024
The data is conflated, and it is designed to create gender and racial disharmony.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 26 Apr. 2024
Written by Will Ainsley | The Beach Boys’ story is one of contradictions: genius and triviality, harmony and disharmony, creativity and commodity, Dennis Wilson and Al Jardine, Brian Wilson and Mike Love.
—Will Ainsley, SPIN, 24 May 2024
Ishibashi’s score — swooning and orchestral, flecked with hints of danger — underlines the feeling of disharmony, as do random gunshots exploding in the distance in the forest.
—Tim Grierson, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disharmony
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The two leaders have alternated between strategic alignment and open discord, with McConnell distancing himself following the January 6, 2021, Capitol riots.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 17 Dec. 2024
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There’s discord and violence — at Poppy’s school, out in London, even during her driving lessons with the ornery, proto–men’s rights advocate Scott (Eddie Marsan).Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 9 Dec. 2024
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Or will this be a long period of push and pull, with visible intraparty strife?Nathaniel Rakich, ABC News, 23 Dec. 2024
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And the internal strife will make Trump’s plan to begin carrying out mass deportations on the very first day of his presidency an even heavier lift.Julia Ainsley, NBC News, 18 Dec. 2024
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Payers are focused on reducing costs to boost profitability, often leading to friction with healthcare providers who face increasing administrative burdens and diminishing financial returns.Kyle J. Russell, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2024
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From a shortage of teachers to a surplus Under the Pay Equity Fund, only teachers — not center directors or other administrators — get pay bumps, a point of friction for some.Andrea Hsu, NPR, 13 Dec. 2024
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Unlike their countrymen in the contemporary tropicalia movement (Gilberto Gil, Os Mutantes), the Minas Gerais musicians favored languid drift and golden melody over genre-busting and discordance, and Lo Borges is as good an album as the moment produced.Vulture Editors, Vulture, 20 Apr. 2024
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The lengthy obituaries detailed my career accomplishments and deep ties to family and friends with the uncanny discordance of an AI bot.Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 21 Feb. 2024
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In 2024, archaeological evidence of armed conflicts spanned the ancient era through World War II.Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Dec. 2024
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However, conflict arose when 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports declined to renew their charter agreements due to concerning clauses that seemed to prevent teams from filing antitrust lawsuits against NASCAR.Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 27 Dec. 2024
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There’s now a clear split between the Sun Belt and the Blue Wall A key schism has become deeper in recent weeks.Niall Stanage, The Hill, 2 Nov. 2024
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The Boar’s Head family schism appears to pit Martin and Brunckhorst on one side, and Bischoff on the other.Chloe Sorvino, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2024
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Presidents have tapped the stockpile to calm oil markets during war or when hurricanes hit oil infrastructure along the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss and Lisa Pauline Mattackal, USA TODAY, 17 Dec. 2024
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This year, the 31-meter-tall tree and the decorations dedicated to the Christmas miracle were made possible privately by patrons, without government funds as the war with Russia continues.Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
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