discordance

Example Sentences

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Language discordance—the situation when providers and patients speak different languages—is all too common throughout the United States.

From Scientific American

But then the discordance of your views on this issue must already have undermined your respect for your partner — otherwise you wouldn’t be thinking of leaving him over it.

From New York Times

“We show that since the Planck power spectra prefer a closed Universe, discordances higher than generally estimated arise for most of the local cosmological observables, including baryon acoustic oscillations,” the authors state in the study.

From Salon

The dramaturgical dissonance is symptomatic of a larger racial discordance.

From Los Angeles Times

Some European countries sent low-level delegations to Warsaw to reflect that discordance.

From Los Angeles Times