discordance

Example Sentences

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The idea that anyone, even Infiniti’s plucky proto-guerilla, is special in a perpetual war against oppression is a minor discordance in the script, along with a small character’s moral turn that’s a bit too convenient.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 24, 2025

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

Ms. Garrels’s editors in Washington were watching television and asked her if she wanted to revise her story, given the discordance between her words and the televised images.

From New York Times • Sep. 7, 2022

Usually that discordance is taken to signal a psychological, rather than physical, issue.

From Slate • Apr. 25, 2021

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