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The apple of discord is Helen’s house, now rented, set on an acre abutting a state nature reserve.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 7, 2022

But Poindexter had thrown a feather-stuffed apple of discord into the Scalia story.

From The New Yorker ● Feb. 17, 2016

Into German politics last week a big red apple of discord was flung by Minister of Labor Adam Stegerwald.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Wall Street Journal published it, thereby casting a golden apple of discord throughout the financial community.

From Time Magazine Archive

At the very Marriage feast an apple of discord has been thrown in, and that apple is Switzerland.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 364, February 1846 by Various


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