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
Aligning with the 24-hour state minimum would still balance community use while reducing permitting friction.
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Peter White, Deadline, 10 Oct. 2025
Whatever desire the audience might have to root for Kerr is undermined by his mounting failures in the ring and his growing friction with Dawn.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 9 Oct. 2025
Developer intent Final Fantasy VII Remake is far from the first modern game to offer players a simple option for friction-free progress.
—ArsTechnica, 9 Oct. 2025
This reduces friction, lowers the risk of injury and adapts to different body shapes automatically.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 8 Oct. 2025
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Peter White, Deadline, 10 Oct. 2025
Whatever desire the audience might have to root for Kerr is undermined by his mounting failures in the ring and his growing friction with Dawn.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 9 Oct. 2025
Developer intent Final Fantasy VII Remake is far from the first modern game to offer players a simple option for friction-free progress.
—ArsTechnica, 9 Oct. 2025
This reduces friction, lowers the risk of injury and adapts to different body shapes automatically.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 8 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for friction
Recent Examples of Synonyms for friction
Noun
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Trustees ‘feel their powers have been reduced’ At the center of the current discord, according to a source, is the fact that Tata Sons is supposed to receive prior approval from Tata Trusts for any major financial investments.—
Priyanka Salve,
CNBC,
10 Oct. 2025
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To what was such a spasmodic discord owed?—
Julio Cortázar,
Literary Hub,
6 Oct. 2025
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The clash among the neighborhoods mirrored his internal strife over his biracial identity.—
Jazmine Hughes,
Robb Report,
9 Oct. 2025
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From Gaza to Myanmar and Sudan, communities around the globe continue to suffer the consequences of war, civil strife and sectarian violence.—
Christopher P. Davey,
The Conversation,
6 Oct. 2025
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If the peace holds, the region could enter a new era defined less by conflict than by the possibility of transformation, including the rebuilding of a post-Hamas Gaza and the normalization of Israeli relations with Saudi Arabia.—
Eric Cortellessa,
Time,
11 Oct. 2025
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Both led their people through seemingly impossible conflicts with grace and the ethos of nonviolence.—
Janine Di Giovanni,
Travel + Leisure,
11 Oct. 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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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
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From migrants and colonizers to gossip and war, Emily Wilson examines The Aeneid and its relevance to the modern world.—
tumblr.com,
tumblr.com,
11 Oct. 2025
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But our flights had been canceled amid rocket fire and regional escalation, fallout from Israel’s latest offensive in Gaza and its war with Iran.—
Reem Kassis,
The Atlantic,
11 Oct. 2025
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In her autobiography, Mabel Dodge laid the blame for her schism with Stein firmly on one person.—
Via Scribner,
Literary Hub,
7 Oct. 2025
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The Chiles case shines a spotlight on a growing schism in the LGBT base between gender-critical gays and their transgender counterparts.—
Mia Cathell,
The Washington Examiner,
6 Oct. 2025
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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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As coalition warfare becomes the norm, integrating data across multiple partners—each with distinct platforms and classification levels—can mean the difference between success and failure.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
13 Oct. 2025
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China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is moving its ground forces from traditional close-range tank warfare to long-range, beyond-visual-range combat, enabled by its latest generation of main battle tanks, according to a PLA Daily report published Monday.—
Kapil Kajal,
Interesting Engineering,
13 Oct. 2025
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“Friction.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/friction. Accessed 16 Oct. 2025.
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