discord

In our current era of political discord and economic pessimism, we can use some optimism about human achievement.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

The group has not publicly commented on the discord.

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026

The internal discord at “60 Minutes” followed a highly successful season where its ratings increased by 9% according to Nielsen.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

One point of friction in the ambitious US security agenda had been discord between Ecuadoran President Daniel Noboa and Colombia's Petro over anti-narcotics military operations conducted by Washington and Quito.

From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026

At that very instant the music changed, faltering into discord and winding down to a slow, wailing finish.

From "Lupita Mañana" by Patricia Beatty

The musical still dwells on their intergenerational and intersectional discords — albeit this time with upbeat numbers, disco balls and dance breaks in the multipurpose room of their local Jewish Community Center.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2023

Do you arbitrate these touchy discords between cohabitants on a frequent basis?

From Washington Post ● Feb. 18, 2020

Author Christopher Caldwell traces the origins of today’s deep discords to President John F. Kennedy’s assassination in 1963.

From Washington Times ● Jan. 24, 2020

In opera, music harmonises discords and helps to pardon moral faults, but the real Anna Nicole was loud, unlyrical and intermittently obscene.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 2, 2011

It was something which announced itself; a chill breath that seemed to issue from some vast cavern wherein discords wailed.

From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin

Nay, the monster had a certain key of style, or want of style, so that certain milder passages, which I sought to introduce, discorded horribly and impoverished, if that were possible, the general effect.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson

And on her side gentle thoughts and simple pleasures were odious to Mrs. Becky; they discorded with her; she hated people for liking them; she spurned children and children-lovers.

From Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

A discording voice and an inordinate troubleth the accord of many voices.

From Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus by Robert Steele

Mrs. Pettigrew's screams were almost drowned in the discording crash and crackle of the falling avalanche of crockery.

From The Wouldbegoods by E. (Edith) Nesbit

And if rain be evil and distemperate in its qualities, and discording to place and time, it is grievous and noyful to many things.

From Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus by Robert Steele

Thou shalt them ken by their discording notes, Their weeds are plain, such as poor shepherds wear; Unshapen, torn, and ragged are their coats, Yet forth they wand'ring are devoid of fear.

From Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles: Idea, Fidesa and Chloris by Martha Foote Crow

He mixes public and private business, the intricacies of discording life with his religion and devotion.

From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas