discord

"I don't like him, he sows discord," one stallholder said.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

The discord meant the program spent much of the summer hiring replacement correspondents, including Ross Douthat, a conservative New York Times opinion writer with no experience as a TV journalist.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026

The group has not publicly commented on the discord.

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026

Microsoft insisted that using infrastructure located physically in Europe could address clients' growing concerns about dependence on US tech firms in a time of transatlantic discord.

From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026

I was a discord in Gateshead Hall: I was like nobody there; I had nothing in harmony with Mrs. Reed or her children, or her chosen vassalage.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

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

The strings pile up discords, first spooky, now ominous.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 1, 2012

They used harmony as an additional layer of subtlety and effect, even by using discords to intensify the meaning of texts conveying suffering, loss or anguish.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

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

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

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

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

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

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

From Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus by Robert Steele