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
Amid a troubling spell of injuries and a cacophony of speculation about disharmony in their dressing room, the Vancouver Canucks have won just four games in a month.
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Chris Johnston, The Athletic, 8 Jan. 2025
There have been reports in the Indian media on disharmony within the India team throughout the series, unsurprising given the team straddles different generations, and surely fracturing further amid having lost six of their last eight Tests.
—Tristan Lavalette, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2025
The words tell about heartbreak and love, of faith in one another and faith in God, hope, hard work, marital harmony, and disharmony...
—Dave Paulson, The Tennessean, 30 Dec. 2024
And that means the football schedule can create disharmony at home.
—Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 11 Dec. 2024
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Chris Johnston, The Athletic, 8 Jan. 2025
There have been reports in the Indian media on disharmony within the India team throughout the series, unsurprising given the team straddles different generations, and surely fracturing further amid having lost six of their last eight Tests.
—Tristan Lavalette, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2025
The words tell about heartbreak and love, of faith in one another and faith in God, hope, hard work, marital harmony, and disharmony...
—Dave Paulson, The Tennessean, 30 Dec. 2024
And that means the football schedule can create disharmony at home.
—Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 11 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disharmony
Noun
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The law aims to prevent China from collecting substantial amounts of data from the platform's 170 million U.S. users and covertly manipulate the content on TikTok to harm the U.S. by sowing discord and division, federal officials have said.—
Caitlin Yilek,
CBS News,
17 Jan. 2025
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Gallup’s research shows that U.S. adults think 2025 will be a year of political conflict, economic difficulty, international discord, increasing power for China and Russia and a rising federal budget deficit.—
Bryan Robinson,
Forbes,
9 Jan. 2025
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In a year flooded with political and economic strife, the predictability of holiday purchasing was anything but certain.—
Bernard May,
Forbes,
22 Jan. 2025
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Most likely, the Oscars will serve as a show of resilience for a town that has endured, in the past few years, a pandemic shutdown, labor strife, and the uncertainty of the streaming age.—
Michael Schulman,
The New Yorker,
22 Jan. 2025
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There has been reported friction between Rodgers and McCarthy.—
Antwan Staley,
New York Daily News,
16 Jan. 2025
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And that temper may be what’s causing friction between him and his wife, Charlotte (Julia Garner).—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
15 Jan. 2025
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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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Their conflict has killed more than 28,000 people, forced millions to flee their homes and left some families eating grass in a desperate attempt to survive as famine sweeps parts of the country.—
Jon Gambrell,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Jan. 2025
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Most aggravating is the way the film neatly resolves all of its conflicts for the end.—
Esther Zuckerman,
IndieWire,
26 Jan. 2025
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To me, this demonstrates the schism between the classic Republican—which is the Brooks Brothers, free-trade, globalist, Reaganite Republican—and the new Republican, which is populist.—
Vittoria Elliott,
WIRED,
21 Jan. 2025
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And how did the family schism widen to the point that Amy is now accusing Clayton and Kathryn of once plotting their father’s murder, in one of multiple lawsuits Amy has been involved in following Carmen’s death?—
Andy Greene,
Rolling Stone,
19 Jan. 2025
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The Mets signed the right fielder last month after a high-stakes bidding war that also included the Yankees, Toronto Blue Jays, Boston Red Sox and Los Angeles Dodgers.—
Peter Sblendorio,
New York Daily News,
27 Jan. 2025
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The Al Rasheed coastal road was damaged during the war and remains difficult to pass in some places.—
Abeer Salman,
CNN,
27 Jan. 2025
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“Disharmony.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disharmony. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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