discordance

Example Sentences

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And that’s the discordance of our current crisis with what is in our constitutional tool kit.

From Slate • Apr. 15, 2026

Testing for apoB rather than LDL-C could identify people who are at high risk due to this discordance.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 8, 2024

As a professional editor, Susan is alert to discordance and senses something is not quite right.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 2022

There is also a weird thematic discordance when you consider that “Thrones” spent eight seasons showing us the destructive folly of cyclical power struggles, ultimately building to a resolution designed to leave all that behind.

From New York Times • Aug. 21, 2022

I pounded my unease into the keys, hoping the discordance would drive him away, but he held on.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago