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Recent Examples of inharmonic
The sound of this solicitation purr is especially inharmonic, and cat owners are actually more attuned to it than non-owners, so there's no learning to just ignore it.
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Sarah Zhang, Discover Magazine, 28 Apr. 2012
The arc evolved from inharmonic drones and swoops to a stretch of rolling, arpeggiated waves reminiscent of musical minimalism, and then back again.
—Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2019
The stimuli included harmonic sounds and inharmonic sounds (produced by shifting some frequencies of a previously harmonic sound), and sounds with beating and without.
—Sciencenow, WIRED, 13 Nov. 2012
Sarah Zhang, Discover Magazine, 28 Apr. 2012
The arc evolved from inharmonic drones and swoops to a stretch of rolling, arpeggiated waves reminiscent of musical minimalism, and then back again.
—Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2019
The stimuli included harmonic sounds and inharmonic sounds (produced by shifting some frequencies of a previously harmonic sound), and sounds with beating and without.
—Sciencenow, WIRED, 13 Nov. 2012
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inharmonic
Adjective
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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
Adjective
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Busy Backsplashes Too much pattern and color can date your kitchen in a flash while also giving your space an unbalanced feel, says Eisenhart.—
Patricia Shannon,
Southern Living,
30 Jan. 2025
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California has faced budget crises before, but this could be the perfect storm of a chronically unbalanced budget made infinitely worse by disaster.—
Dan Walters,
The Mercury News,
30 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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But there may be more at play than just a (potentially) unequal allotment of resources.—
Yaakov Katz,
Newsweek,
9 Feb. 2025
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These are, of course, unequal tragedies, if the latter can even be called a tragedy.—
Hanif Abdurraqib,
The New Yorker,
2 Feb. 2025
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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.—
Beatrice Zocchi,
Vogue,
28 Oct. 2024
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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
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The Duchess of Sussex styled her sleeveless midi dress, which features asymmetrical tunic top with a pleated skirt, with layered gold bracelets including Cartier’s Love bracelet, a Cartier gold tank watch, and a pair of pointed-toe pumps.—
Marissa Muller,
WWD,
8 Feb. 2025
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The skirt fanned out into an asymmetrical silhouette printed with Degas’s famous ballerinas.—
Hannah Jackson,
Vogue,
3 Feb. 2025
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In the sometimes incongruous and counterintuitive world of NCAA Tournament selection, the Aztecs (15-5, 8-3) have won four straight games … and lost ground in their quest to reach the Big Dance for a fifth straight time and 12th time in the last 15.—
Mark Zeigler,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
2 Feb. 2025
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The Italian director Alice Rohrwacher’s films often focus on incongruous moments of enchantment within communities living at the margins of society.—
Jé Wilson,
The New York Review of Books,
23 Jan. 2025
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In the past, Jamil has openly discussed her own journey recovering from anorexia and disordered eating.—
Rachel Raposas,
People.com,
27 Dec. 2024
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Thus did the conservative loose cannonballs come eventually to dominate the GOP—and define our disordered political era.—
Daniel Schlozman & Sam Rosenfeld / Made by History,
TIME,
10 June 2024
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Under his cap, everything around his eyes sweats; his smile is crooked but near constant, his beard half-shaven and unsymmetrical.—
Emiliano Tahui Gómez,
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel,
11 Aug. 2021
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The system used helium as a pressurizing gas, inhibited nitrogen tetroxide for an oxidizer, and a blended hydrazine fuel made up of a mixture of around 50 percent unsymmetrical dimethyl hydrazine and 50 percent anhydrous hydrazine.—
Alex Hollings,
Popular Mechanics,
24 July 2019
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