1
as in discord
a lack of agreement or harmony
considerable dissent within the party's rank and file
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2
as in dissention
departure from a generally accepted theory, opinion, or practice
the church reacted to any form of dissent by promptly excommunicating its proponents
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as in to disagree
to have a different opinion
anyone who dissented was encouraged to speak out while they had the chance
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Recent Examples of dissent
Kyle Feldscher, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2025
The council voted 4-1 in favor of Mandy with Mayor pro tem Louie Rocha in dissent.
—Hema Sivanandam, Mercury News, 25 Sep. 2025
Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Sep. 2025
Before Wednesday’s meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee, some on Wall Street saw deeper division, with Miran representing a potential third dissenting vote for a half-point cut.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 20 Sep. 2025
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Noun
Unlike a political event where attendance can be limited to supporters or tightly controlled to make sure that obvious dissent is at a minimum, sporting events are wild and unpredictable environments.
—Kyle Feldscher, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2025
The council voted 4-1 in favor of Mandy with Mayor pro tem Louie Rocha in dissent.
—Hema Sivanandam, Mercury News, 25 Sep. 2025
Verb
Barely a week after his death, however, those same supporters were grappling with conflicting narratives about his changing stance on Israel—and trading accusations that mirror a wider debate on whether dissenting views are being silenced.
—Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Sep. 2025
Before Wednesday’s meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee, some on Wall Street saw deeper division, with Miran representing a potential third dissenting vote for a half-point cut.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 20 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dissent
Noun
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Disboard lists many public discord servers and many young coders use the site, contributing a different demographic of coders.—
Stephen Cass,
IEEE Spectrum,
23 Sep. 2025
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But warning signs of discord between networks and affiliates had been flashing for years.—
Dade Hayes,
Deadline,
20 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Money versus love – like many Americans, USA TODAY readers disagree over which is more important in a relationship.—
Rachel Barber,
USA Today,
28 Sep. 2025
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Beyond his lengthy acting and directing career, Penn has also long been involved in humanitarian efforts, as well as political and social activism, the likes of which Lockjaw surely would disagree with.—
Lauren Huff,
Entertainment Weekly,
26 Sep. 2025
Noun
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In the value-investing, human discretion driven ethos of PIMCO this was heresy.—
Vineer Bhansali,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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The town’s new math is savage in that outrage decays, audiences pay, so ‘respect for Trump’s chops’ is suddenly a hard-nosed business note, not heresy.—
Brie Stimson , Larry Fink,
FOXNews.com,
3 Sep. 2025
Noun
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As that interior strife becomes more evident, the beautiful mountain village gives way to rot, decay, and of course, actual monsters.—
Vincent Acovino,
NPR,
22 Sep. 2025
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Drawing on his own proprietary study of 500 years of history, the founder of the world’s largest hedge fund, Bridgewater Associates, points to a predictable 80-year cycle that suggests an era of significant global and internal strife is upon us.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
22 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Yet what distinguishes Bowles’s work—what animates those strange, angular sentences, with their unexpected rhythms and turns of phrase and rabid energy—isn’t its interest in nonconformity but its obsession with spiritual transformation.—
Nicole Flattery,
Harpers Magazine,
19 Sep. 2025
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The character — and those punchlines — carry a different meaning today, as unpacked by this documentary about nonconformity and being seen.—
Chris Foran,
jsonline.com,
3 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Indexing or eliminating caps would shift the burden from those least able to pay and smooth market frictions hurting families of all ages.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
27 Sep. 2025
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Together, these Cardinal energies create friction between the desire for compromise and the raw truth surrounding a situation.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
27 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The biographical drama is inspired by the lives of Brazilian activist Eunice Paiva and her politician husband Rubens, who was murdered for his dissidence toward the military dictatorship of 1970s Brazil.—
Edward Segarra,
USA Today,
3 Apr. 2025
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If Trump’s first Presidency was characterized by widespread revolt, his second term has so far been defined by the lack of dissidence.—
Brady Brickner-Wood,
The New Yorker,
5 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Fearing conflict or rejection will only complicate things under the Sagittarius moon.—
USA TODAY,
USA Today,
28 Sep. 2025
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On one side of the conflict was Skeet and many of his immediate family members and longtime allies; on the other was Skeet’s own nephew, Constable Brandon Jones, who came to represent those who had run afoul of his own family.—
Mitch Moxley,
Rolling Stone,
27 Sep. 2025
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“Dissent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dissent. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.
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