discordant
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“My Administration must act with the Congress to ensure that there is a minimally burdensome national standard—not 50 discordant State ones,” wrote President Donald Trump in a December executive order External link.
From Barron's • May 26, 2026
As applied to religious symbols, Lemon led to a series of fractured decisions from 1984 to 2010 that pleased no one and provided widely discordant direction to lower courts.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026
A 19th-Century Anglo-Indian journal derided the voices of boys playing women as "discordant", comparing them unfavourably to "howling jackals".
From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026
Without sense, it could be a myopic rumination on climate change mixed with a treacly buddy comedy, where two opposing temperaments clash into a discordant, aggravating mess.
From Salon • Mar. 21, 2026
But I was so determined not to try, not to be anybody different that I learned to play only the most ear-splitting preludes, the most discordant hymns.
From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan
Vocabulary lists containing discordant
Grade 9, List 4
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