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dissonance

noun as in noise, discord

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Those messages highlighted the growing dissonance between reggaeton’s origins in poor, marginalized communities in Puerto Rico and Panama and the genre’s contemporary and increasingly global image.

There is some dissonance between the two heads fighting each other, but it’s the same animal.

From Ozy

Of course, we seem to be in the age of dissonance when it comes to marketing conferences as last year’s Advertising Week was held at the same time as the United Nation’s General Assembly on Climate Action.

From Digiday

Perhaps there’s just too much dissonance when I pair it with chicken, the bar too high to meet.

From Eater

This will only make your user experience skyrocket and help negate dissonance from users.

A big part of the reason is a simple psychological phenomenon called cognitive dissonance.

These subversive narratives were not the solution I sought to the dissonance between my expected and actual college experience.

But when the school holds a ceremony honoring the soldiers who killed her Arab brethren, she suffers clear cognitive dissonance.

But when she takes on the rock scene, she manages to catch all the sociological dissonance and subtle countermelodies.

The European rules create cognitive dissonance: Reality refuses to line up with their convictions.

To make the dissonance more striking, we place the passages in parallel columns.

It was a tumult of harsh voices; but to Fabri in his happiness their various dissonance made sweet harmony.

Clash of character being the starting point of drama we have it amplified in the international by both sympathy and dissonance.

Dissonance to a musical ear is not more horrid than want of harmony between characters to the soul of sensibility.

He could but hope there might be some way of reconciling the terrible dissonance between Nature and Barbara's God!

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