inharmonic

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Recent Examples of inharmonic The sound of this solicitation purr is especially inharmonic, and cat owners are actually more attuned to it than non-owners, so there's no learning to just ignore it. Sarah Zhang, Discover Magazine, 28 Apr. 2012 The arc evolved from inharmonic drones and swoops to a stretch of rolling, arpeggiated waves reminiscent of musical minimalism, and then back again. Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2019 The stimuli included harmonic sounds and inharmonic sounds (produced by shifting some frequencies of a previously harmonic sound), and sounds with beating and without. Sciencenow, WIRED, 13 Nov. 2012
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inharmonic
Adjective
  • Setting Discordant Personal Goals A 2023 study published in Current Psychology finds that partners’ inharmonious goals can have detrimental effects on relationships.
    Mark Travers, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
  • For sixteen hours a week, Valentine hopes to share some melody in a place that, for some, can feel inharmonious.
    Washington Post, Washington Post, 24 July 2021
Adjective
  • The attorney general asserts that the partnership carries a lack of justification in the public interest, is economically unbalanced toward Panama and affects competition.
    Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 4 Mar. 2025
  • Although he was paired with Neymar and Kylian Mbappe, the team was horrendously unbalanced and had big problems when their star players didn’t track back.
    Zak Garner-Purkis, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Historic barriers Examples include lack of mentors, lack of female role models, gender bias, derogatory behavior in the workplace, unequal growth opportunities, lesser wage scenarios, and more.
    Paige Francis, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025
  • Racial and ethnic minorities often experience barriers to health care and have unequal health outcomes.
    Dr. Gary Spinner, Hartford Courant, 4 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Precisely for this reason, what is particularly important is the undertone of the brown lipstick, which can be pinkish or orange to create a continuum with the complexion, avoiding creating disharmonious contrasts.
    Beatrice Zocchi, Vogue, 28 Oct. 2024
  • Yet Gracia, encouraged by the priests to suffer in imitation of Christ and for the promise of eternal afterlife, resolved to stay in disharmonious matrimony with Tadaoki.
    Nicholas Liu, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2024
Adjective
  • The main focal point of the resort is the hotel building, with an asymmetrical shape that tapers off at both ends.
    Katharina Kotrba, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025
  • The singer sported a black blazer with asymmetrical lapels over a tank emblazoned with the brand’s logo, both from Dior’s fall 2025 menswear line designed by Kim Jones.
    Hannah Malach, WWD, 4 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Fans were skeptical of the collaboration, pointing out the match seemed incongruous off the bat and doubling down after hearing the track itself.
    Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 28 Jan. 2025
  • Comfortable familiarity and an awkward desire to escape co-exist like the two quotes at the start, both true in incongruous harmony.
    David Opie, IndieWire, 18 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • In the past, Jamil has openly discussed her own journey recovering from anorexia and disordered eating.
    Rachel Raposas, People.com, 27 Dec. 2024
  • Thus did the conservative loose cannonballs come eventually to dominate the GOP—and define our disordered political era.
    Daniel Schlozman & Sam Rosenfeld / Made by History, TIME, 10 June 2024
Adjective
  • Under his cap, everything around his eyes sweats; his smile is crooked but near constant, his beard half-shaven and unsymmetrical.
    Emiliano Tahui Gómez, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Aug. 2021
  • The system used helium as a pressurizing gas, inhibited nitrogen tetroxide for an oxidizer, and a blended hydrazine fuel made up of a mixture of around 50 percent unsymmetrical dimethyl hydrazine and 50 percent anhydrous hydrazine.
    Alex Hollings, Popular Mechanics, 24 July 2019

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“Inharmonic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inharmonic. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.

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