as in discordance
a lack of agreement or harmony
the discordancy between the film's flamboyant cinematography and its otherwise somber mood
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Recent Examples of discordancy
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.
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New York Times, 17 Nov. 2021
New York Times, 17 Nov. 2021
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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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With a perceptively pro-fossil fuel stance of many in Baku, discord spilled out into the open.Gaurav Sharma, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
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More:Trump says US intel briefed him about how Iran wants to assassinate him to sow discord in US The two men charged in New York also allegedly were recruited to kill an American journalist, Masih Alinejad, a journalist and activist who has criticized Iran's head-covering laws for women.Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 8 Nov. 2024
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Moments of friction with China spurred India’s search for stronger partnerships.Harsh V. Pant, Foreign Affairs, 14 Nov. 2024
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The latter studs the surface of a ball like barnacles to enhance friction, yet the material still spreads thin and even, like toothpaste.Evan Bush, NBC News, 4 Nov. 2024
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Content by this author: Afghanistan’s Ethnic Puzzle In 2001, fearing ethnic strife, the international community pushed for a strong central government in Kabul.Thomas Barfield, Foreign Affairs, 19 Nov. 2024
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The official synopsis for Rose’s Lear Rex reads: An aging king decides to divide his kingdom between his three daughters to prevent future strife.Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 1 Nov. 2024
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As the neighborhood demographics have changed, park usage has often become a point of conflict.Emiliano Tahui Gómez, Austin American-Statesman, 21 Nov. 2024
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The attorneys argued that the development conflicts with the city's future planning ordinance, known as the comprehensive plan.John Tuohy, The Indianapolis Star, 20 Nov. 2024
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Firstly, prices for gold and silver have been rising this year, driven by easing inflation, uncertain remarks by the Fed, and geopolitical concerns given the ongoing wars between Russia - Ukraine.Trefis Team, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
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The barb would elicit responses from both Drake and J. Cole, with J. Cole bowing out early, leaving the rhyme war focused squarely on Drake and Kendrick Lamar.Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 21 Nov. 2024
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As the protests break out and Sadaf gets caught up in them, the schism between the parents and their daughters grows.Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 27 Nov. 2024
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Roberts received a massive show of support from GOP lawmakers, many of whom are aligned with the Liberty movement, a schism within the Republican party that’s more conservative, Christian-centric, and Libertarian-leaning than the establishment GOP.Jolene Almendarez, The Enquirer, 10 Oct. 2024
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For decades, Israel has refrained from adopting a policy of preemptive warfare.Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024
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But Slava is also, out of pure obligation to the reality of his country being invaded, part of a dedicated special forces unit of Ukrainian civilians — from doctors to farmers — who’ve had to learn the art of warfare: operating guns and drones.Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2024
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“Discordancy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/discordancy. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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