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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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The dissonant hoover synths seethe like Bernard Herrmann strings — echoing the lyrics’ references to Hitchcock’s Psycho, Vertigo, and Rear Window.Kristen S. Hé, Vulture, 25 Oct. 2024
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It was improvised and dissonant and the type of weird that gave everyone goosebumps.Angelique Jackson, Variety, 22 Oct. 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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Her pregnancies are painful and unpleasant, especially compared to Lenù’s.Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2024
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One way to avoid unpleasant surprises is to keep your restaurant order simple.Sarah Garone, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Nov. 2024
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That the cast doesn’t really consist of Broadway-ready actors adds that extra discordant note.Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 13 Sep. 2024
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After assuming the prime ministership in July, May dismissed potentially discordant ministers and appointed a finely balanced new cabinet.Tim Cullen, Foreign Affairs, 19 Aug. 2016
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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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In 1951, Leonard Bernstein led the New York Philharmonic in the première of the raucous, joyous Second Symphony.Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
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Cuarón’s movies have already won a solid fan base on the festival circuit thanks to raucous comedies like Y Tu Mama Tambien or imposing personal dramas like Roma.Peter Bart, Deadline, 25 Oct. 2024
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Buried in a bland mixed-use skyscraper in the dreary Financial District downtown, an aging, if glamorous, 1929 movie palace with rotten acoustics long served as the San Diego Symphony’s disagreeable home.Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2024
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The fasting is uncomfortable, the prep is disagreeable, and the procedure itself requires you to be put to sleep.Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 15 Aug. 2024
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Physicists debated for decades (opens a new tab) whether this bizarre superfluid-solid hybrid could exist.Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 6 Nov. 2024
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These may seem like last-ditch efforts in the final runup to Tuesday, or like counter-programming to the increasingly vocal (and bizarre) antics of Elon Musk.WIRED, WIRED, 4 Nov. 2024
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“Disharmonious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disharmonious. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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