as in discord
a lack of agreement or harmony
troubling signs of disunity within the normally peaceful organization
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Recent Examples of disunity
Dissension, division and disunity are the order of the day.
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Linda Chapin, Orlando Sentinel, 9 Mar. 2025
On the contrary, the Middle East is plagued by disunity and rivalry.
—Maha Yahya, Foreign Affairs, 17 Feb. 2025
That reality is in part a result of our current era of highly competitive elections, which have often produced a House where the majority party holds just a small advantage, making any intraparty disunity all the more impactful.
—Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 9 Jan. 2025
In large part because of their own disunity, the Alawites never got their independent state.
—Hussein Ibish, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2024
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Linda Chapin, Orlando Sentinel, 9 Mar. 2025
On the contrary, the Middle East is plagued by disunity and rivalry.
—Maha Yahya, Foreign Affairs, 17 Feb. 2025
That reality is in part a result of our current era of highly competitive elections, which have often produced a House where the majority party holds just a small advantage, making any intraparty disunity all the more impactful.
—Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 9 Jan. 2025
In large part because of their own disunity, the Alawites never got their independent state.
—Hussein Ibish, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disunity
Noun
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Gone was the discord and rudeness that is often synonymous with the Big Apple.—
Leonard Greene,
New York Daily News,
25 May 2025
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Evidently, the discord stemmed from their division of labor.—
Jeremy Helligar,
People.com,
27 Apr. 2025
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Image His support for Mr. Trump has led Tesla’s sales to plummet and has caused strife within his companies, as some employees have taken the rare step of speaking out against their chief executive’s political activity.—
Theodore Schleifer,
New York Times,
20 May 2025
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In 1961-1962, the U.S. political climate was icy, amid escalating strife with the Soviet Union, but there was a warmth emanating from the burgeoning counterculture movement.—
Natasha Gural,
Forbes.com,
8 May 2025
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Eldest and youngest formed a bond that would survive decades of friction over principles and tactics.—
Dan Morrison,
USA Today,
28 May 2025
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Han and Li’s student-teacher relationship in particular is diluted and lacks necessary grounding, and there’s little compelling friction between the two masters to make up for it.—
Wilson Chapman,
IndieWire,
28 May 2025
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This is not the first time that there has been a schism among students at Hillel.—
Anemona Hartocollis,
New York Times,
25 Mar. 2025
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The schism had an immediate effect on the Ukrainian army’s U.S.-made High-Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems.—
David Axe,
Forbes,
5 Mar. 2025
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On April 10, tariffs on nearly all Chinese imports, including fireworks, climbed as high as 145% as a tit-for-tat trade conflict between China and the United States escalated.—
Samantha Delouya,
CNN Money,
26 May 2025
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Instead of blaming or withdrawing, reconnect after hard moments and show your child that conflict doesn’t have to lead to shame or disconnection.—
Reem Raouda,
CNBC,
25 May 2025
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Editors’ Picks An editor at Fast Company, a magazine about business, technology and design, was among the first to notice the discordance.—
Adeel Hassan,
New York Times,
4 May 2025
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Sachs plays on the discordance between his naturalistic approach and the theatricality of the project with meta elements like a quick glimpse of the crew or posed shots of the actors occasionally punctuating the conversation, accompanied by blasts of Mozart’s Requiem in D Minor.—
David Rooney,
The Hollywood Reporter,
27 Jan. 2025
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Trump vowed to end the war in Ukraine on the campaign trail, but so far has seen little to no progress toward that goal since taking office four months ago.—
Dave Goldiner,
New York Daily News,
27 May 2025
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Trump, who was inaugurated on January 20, had campaigned on a promise to end the war within 24 hours of his return to office.—
Isabel van Brugen,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 May 2025
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An increase in the drone supply—in addition to their effectiveness in combat operations—is reflective of a strategic adaptation by NATO to new forms of warfare that increasingly rely on unmanned systems.—
Shane Croucher
John Feng,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 June 2025
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This conflict, ensnared in trench warfare, is reminiscent of the battlefields of Europe in World War I, where the machine gun and tank notably became revolutions in military affairs; the small drone is this generation’s change to modern warfare.—
Bill Edwards,
Forbes.com,
3 June 2025
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“Disunity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disunity. Accessed 7 Jun. 2025.
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