as in frictions
a lack of agreement or harmony
the discord between two of the members threatened to tear our team of researchers apart
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as in conflicts
to be out of harmony or agreement usually noticeably
the evangelist's lavish lifestyle discords with his professed religious beliefs
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Recent Examples of discords
April Uchitel, Flow Space, 6 Aug. 2025
Noun
Your dedicated Slack channels, private discords and endless Reddit threads.
—April Uchitel, Flow Space, 6 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for discords
Noun
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Subscribe Technological sovereignty is a topic that has been gaining momentum in the last year or so as geopolitical frictions have forced companies to assess their reliance on foreign technologies.—
Ryan Browne,
CNBC,
2 Sep. 2025
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Typing, speaking, and even gesturing are frictions that slow us down.—
Jason Snyder,
Forbes.com,
31 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Optical precision, for instance, often conflicts with mechanical strength.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Sep. 2025
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Competing Claims About Victims But the allegation that Naso killed Lambson directly conflicts with prior findings.—
Robert Alexander,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Sep. 2025
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Coerced into a conversion therapy program, Jared clashes with its hostile leader (Joel Edgerton), igniting a transformative journey of self-acceptance.—
Alex Gurley,
People.com,
31 Aug. 2025
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The feces contrast with her teeth in a way that inexplicably clashes with her eyeshadow, and the vignette is instantly burned in your brain.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
21 Aug. 2025
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This time, though, the schisms between the CDC and the states and professional societies go far beyond the timing of an additional dose of vaccine.—
Katherine J. Wu,
The Atlantic,
5 Sep. 2025
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Leicester were extremely dysfunctional in that 2022-23 campaign, with schisms in their midfield that were exploited by opponents.—
Jacob Tanswell,
New York Times,
12 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Kirk, a prominent voice in culture wars on college campuses, hosts a daily radio show and podcast, The Charlie Kirk Show, which ranks among the top 10 on Apple News’ list of top podcasts and has a strong Gen Z fan base.—
Zachary Folk,
Forbes.com,
12 Sep. 2025
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Several years into the streaming wars, a Paramount-WBD merger could entail the most meaningful elimination of a direct-to-consumer outlet yet, in the name of cost efficiencies.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
12 Sep. 2025
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More pragmatism means not widening class divisions by cutting Medicaid and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program funding to give tax breaks to oligarchs.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Sep. 2025
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Eliécer Camacho Jiménez, former general of the Colombian National Police (the organization that works closely with the DEA on combatting drug trafficking in Colombia), told me there are growing divisions within Maduro's circles.—
Kristina Foltz,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Despite two dissents calling for lower rates, the FOMC’s July meeting minutes do not imply that a majority of policymakers were on the cusp of an interest rate cut.—
Simon Moore,
Forbes.com,
21 Aug. 2025
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The dissents The primary dissent was written by Chief Justice Roberts, and joined in part by the three Democratic appointees, Jackson, Kagan, and Sotomayor.—
John Timmer,
ArsTechnica,
21 Aug. 2025
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International investment treaty disputes are arbitrated under a third-party institution that employs attorneys who specialize in international law and have no particular ties to either party.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
11 Sep. 2025
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The California Governor’s Office disputes Kominski’s characterization of contractor donations as a vector for political influence.—
Robert Schmad,
The Washington Examiner,
10 Sep. 2025
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“Discords.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/discords. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.
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