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discord

[dis-kawrd, dis-kawrd] / ˈdɪs kɔrd, dɪsˈkɔrd /


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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 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

"We need to work together to address issues like conflict, instability, governance failures, poverty and social discord."

From Barron's Jul. 27, 2026

White suggested in his autobiography that any discord in Earth, Wind & Fire was a natural part of band life.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 18, 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

Rather worryingly, musically speaking, the queasiest stuff – the discords and the lurching, seasick strings – are reserved for the obsessive music fan, rather than, say, the murderer.

From The Guardian Jun. 13, 2010

The music did not seem so jolly then; he heard discords and strange silences, and notes that hung in the air bleeding.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

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

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 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

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

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

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




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