discord

It's a sense of discord that Britain's new prime minister, Andy Burnham, seems to recognise.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

The 2026 World Cup may also be benefiting from a viewing public that wants a distraction from the ongoing political discord in the U.S. and war in the Middle East.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026

A strategy some other lawyers might use, he said, would be to shoot for discord that might lead to a mistrial.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026

Barton builds up Mozart’s role, with emphasis on his home life, which he fills with discord and challenges of his own devising.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2026

And so: into the harmony of their suffering entered discord.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

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

Lennon spoke of the partnership with McCartney in an interview with Playboy in 1980: "He provided a lightness, an optimism, while I would always go for the sadness, the discords, the bluesy notes," he said.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 23, 2011

These discords, though relatively tame by modern standards, would have sounded shocking to Monteverdi's contemporaries.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

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

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

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

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

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

From Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus by Robert Steele