dissonance
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The overall picture is one of serious cognitive dissonance.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
That dissonance is a big part of why “Ice Princess” holds up today.
From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2026
The cognitive dissonance contributed to the thickness in the air that week.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
Emelyn Rude, author of Tastes Like Chicken: A History of America’s Favorite Bird, says “the shock comes from this dissonance: we don’t think of it as a luxury food.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
It’s a weird kind of dissonance, seeing him stand here in front of my door.
From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon
The man who created “The Rite of Spring”—a ballet whose pounding dissonances and unconventional rhythms caused pandemonium at its 1913 Paris premiere—now insisted that the bolder the creative ambition, the tighter the frame must be.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 11, 2026
Yorke’s tormented voice has stayed upfront, and the songwriting leans into Radiohead’s dissonances, odd meters and fully enveloping aura of anxiety.
From New York Times ● Jan. 29, 2024
To be an immigrant is to live in a fractured multiverse, one riven with geographic, temporal and psychical dissonances.
From Washington Post ● May 4, 2022
Everything about it, from the spare, enveloping details of Grant Major’s production design to the nerve-shredding dissonances of Jonny Greenwood’s score, directs our focus inward.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 16, 2021
Or is there a kind of cosmic fugue, with themes and counterpoints, dissonances and harmonies, a billion different voices playing the life music of the Galaxy?
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
Vocabulary lists containing dissonance
Common Senses: Son ("Sound")
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myPerspectives 10.1
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