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Recent Examples of discordant Nelson’s guitar playing was alternately sweet and jarringly discordant. George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 May 2025 As an American neorealist, drawn to depict historic spiritual struggle, Burnett just can’t lie, which makes The Annihilation of Fish an awkward presentation of the discordant elements in Hollywood race ideology. Armond White, National Review, 25 June 2025 Sure, that’s a lot to digest, but Kojima manages to somehow string together each discordant note into something unlike anything else in gaming (or any medium for that matter). Hayes Madsen, Rolling Stone, 23 June 2025 The findings offer a compelling response to Crick’s dilemma, reconciling the discordant timescales to explain how ephemeral molecules maintain memories that last a lifetime. Ajdina Halilovic, Quanta Magazine, 7 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for discordant
Recent Examples of Synonyms for discordant
Adjective
  • The orchestration is a touch grotesque, with the first violins given a shrill D two octaves above middle C.
    Alex Ross, New Yorker, 23 June 2025
  • Still, the shrill alarm that echoed on Friday morning as Israel announced airstrikes on neighboring Iran gave her that familiar feeling.
    Isabel Rivera, Miami Herald, 15 June 2025
Adjective
  • These creatures can be very noisy, but there's a purpose.
    Marley Malenfant, Austin American Statesman, 22 July 2025
  • There are also elements that people tend to notice only when things go wrong, like if a restaurant is too noisy.
    Sofia Perez, Forbes.com, 21 July 2025
Adjective
  • An aggressive hitter, Naylor can get extremely hot, and carry a team with drives to the gap or bombs over the fence.
    Bernie Pleskoff, Forbes.com, 22 July 2025
  • Sadly, Minx was soon diagnosed with an aggressive cancer.
    Staff Author, People.com, 22 July 2025
Adjective
  • So there is some conflicting or missing information of when AL got the legal rights to disconnect owners' cars.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 11 July 2025
  • The court found that the testimony of an animal control officer who seized the horses was unreliable based on conflicting factual statements, according to court records.
    Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 11 July 2025
Adjective
  • The outside world seems to be growing only more dissonant and chaotic.
    Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 2 June 2025
  • If not, a show that has now been in decline for half its run risks devolving into a mess as self-indulgent, morose, and, well, dissonant as its title character.
    Judy Berman, Time, 26 June 2025
Adjective
  • Buhari vowed to do more to fight militant groups and fix the economy as the demonstrations turned deadly and continued to simmer for the remainder of his presidency.
    Mitchell McCluskey, CNN Money, 13 July 2025
  • Settler violence in the West Bank has risen since the start of Israel's war against Palestinian militant group Hamas in Gaza in late 2023, according to rights groups.
    Ali Sawafta, USA Today, 13 July 2025
Adjective
  • While Salesforce tries to make this as painless as possible, its UI/UX can be inconsistent and create bottlenecks during onboarding.
    Andrii Kovalchuk, Forbes.com, 25 July 2025
  • The company's customer service is known for being inconsistent.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 25 July 2025
Adjective
  • Setting Discordant Personal Goals A 2023 study published in Current Psychology finds that partners’ inharmonious goals can have detrimental effects on relationships.
    Mark Travers, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
  • For sixteen hours a week, Valentine hopes to share some melody in a place that, for some, can feel inharmonious.
    Washington Post, Washington Post, 24 July 2021

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“Discordant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/discordant. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.

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