as in shrill
marked by or producing a harsh combination of sounds
a dissonant chorus of noises arose from the busy construction site
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Recent Examples of dissonant
It was improvised and dissonant and the type of weird that gave everyone goosebumps.
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Angelique Jackson, Variety, 22 Oct. 2024
Marketers need to follow different playbooks for independent, dissonant, and resonant products, tailoring their approaches to green, blue, and gray customers with each.
—Frédéric Dalsace
goutam Challagalla, Harvard Business Review, 17 Apr. 2024
Under creator Christopher Storer’s frenetic, dissonant direction, Season 1 captured the grinding stress of an everyday kitchen on the constant verge of chaos.
—Alison Herman, Variety, 27 June 2024
The premiere begins with the usual title card and audio sting of an orchestra tuning up and crescendoing into something dissonant and foreboding.
—Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 12 May 2024
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Angelique Jackson, Variety, 22 Oct. 2024
Marketers need to follow different playbooks for independent, dissonant, and resonant products, tailoring their approaches to green, blue, and gray customers with each.
—Frédéric Dalsace
goutam Challagalla, Harvard Business Review, 17 Apr. 2024
Under creator Christopher Storer’s frenetic, dissonant direction, Season 1 captured the grinding stress of an everyday kitchen on the constant verge of chaos.
—Alison Herman, Variety, 27 June 2024
The premiere begins with the usual title card and audio sting of an orchestra tuning up and crescendoing into something dissonant and foreboding.
—Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 12 May 2024
See all Example Sentences for dissonant
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dissonant
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Like, watched it all the way through from the shrill opening filled with obnoxious kids to the leadenly staged slapstick climax?Keith Phipps, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2024
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Further down the road, another piper — just playing to play — is sending his shrill notes out into the night sky.Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, The Athletic, 5 July 2024
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In today’s noisy landscape, initial efforts to get a fledgling client noticed may fall short.Expert Panel®, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
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Positive energy Bears wide receiver DJ Moore looked around a noisy Friday afternoon locker room when asked how the team has handled the recent coaching changes.Colleen Kane, Chicago Tribune, 6 Dec. 2024
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Hundreds of revelers roar at once, thrusting homemade torches into the freezing air and banging pans together with cacophonous glee.Amiel Stanek, Bon Appétit, 26 Nov. 2024
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Getty The designation recognizes areas with pristine natural soundscapes, an increasingly necessary balm in our cacophonous modern world.CNT Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Nov. 2024
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Almost everyone is bitter, unpleasant, scheming, self-centered, manipulative or awful (or just plain crazy).Erik Kain, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
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The news, predictably, was unpleasant: the Olympic roster was about to leak, and Clark wasn’t on it.Sean Gregory, TIME, 10 Dec. 2024
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While Trump did have certain discordant regulatory inclinations of his own, his late-term optics in part reflect the Administrative Procedure Act’s requirements: eliminating two rules for every new one often necessitated new rules to implement the removals.Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
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Not in the factual sense, because that would be crazy, but closer to how fashionistas know to add one discordant accessory.Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2024
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For a nation that was the first to ban all metallic mining operations, joining such a forum struck many as an unusual move that preceded a national pivot on the issue.Jesus Mesa, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
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Mix them with iridescent ball ornaments, metallic ball garland, and paper chains for a plentiful tree.Amy Panos, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Dec. 2024
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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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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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“Dissonant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dissonant. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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