discordance

Example Sentences

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Testing for apoB rather than LDL-C could identify people who are at high risk due to this discordance.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 8, 2024

Juxtaposing Nardelli’s remarks and the settlement points to the discordance in how we define “crime” in the workplace.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 30, 2023

Usually that discordance is taken to signal a psychological, rather than physical, issue.

From Slate • Apr. 25, 2021

But even then, to fully embrace The Dilemma also requires a tolerance for tonal discordance and a sociological interest in the bridge between the earnestness of the bromance and the gender hegemony of toxic masculinity.

From The Guardian • Feb. 26, 2021

I pounded my unease into the keys, hoping the discordance would drive him away, but he held on.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago