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dissonant

[dis-uh-nuhnt] / ˈdɪs ə nənt /




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Dissonant has a library of 800 discs and around 350 members, mostly around White’s age.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 6, 2025

Last year White launched an app called Dissonant.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 6, 2025

Dissonant emissions of sound come from the sidelines, courtesy of the violinist Jason Kao Hwang and the trombonist Christopher McIntyre.

From New York Times • Jun. 6, 2023

Dissonant images of life and death play out side by side in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv.

From New York Times • Jul. 9, 2022

Dissonant, dis′o-nant, adj. not agreeing or harmonising in sound: without concord or harmony: disagreeing.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various




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