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disharmony

[dis-hahr-muh-nee] / dɪsˈhɑr mə ni /


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It was proof, yet again, that elderly parents leave behind financial disharmony, despite their best intentions.

From MarketWatch Jan. 2, 2026

The last thing clients want is for the wealth they worked so hard for to end up creating disharmony at best, and litigation at worst.

From Barron's Oct. 10, 2025

She says it's hard to get a divorce because "many of our laws in China are to protect the family. Women often dare not divorce because of family disharmony".

From BBC Jan. 4, 2025

He is the catalyst and the driving force behind the disharmony.

From Salon Feb. 24, 2024

Never once did I witness any disharmony between one of my uncles and the earth and work of the valley.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya

Eerily floating string disharmonies were cut off by jarring percussion and brass outbursts; inquisitive wind motifs were answered with stark silences.

From New York Times Apr. 11, 2011

The oldest American negotiation, the endless business between black and white, may be subverted more than we know by disharmonies of expectation and assumption.

From Time Magazine Archive

The disharmonies in Nature in both the living and the non-living worlds tend to correct themselves.

From Under the Maples by John Burroughs

And love, which she had trusted to resolve all life's disharmonies, was either ineffectual or dangerous.

From The Judge by Rebecca West

Our intelligence informs us that man is capable of much, and, therefore, we hope that he may be able to modify his own nature and transform his disharmonies into harmonies.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science by Sir John Alexander Hammerton




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