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Recent Examples of dissensus These dramas of politics — each involving the high court’s first black justice — arrive at a singularly contentious political moment in an atmosphere of angry, sometimes violent dissensus. Manohla Dargis and A.o. Scott, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dissensus
Noun
  • The case underscores growing national debates about religious liberty, public funding for education, and the intersection of state action with constitutional protections.
    Kaelan Deese, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 24 Jan. 2025
  • The Culture Wars Probably the most intense debate around The Veilguard was the inclusion of a non-binary companion.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Jake is a single father who has brought Kristen up in the severe Calvinist tradition, marked by Bible disputations of Talmudic intricacy and by a radical detachment from secular and popular culture.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2023
  • And yet there is one aspect of the book which was notable: a disputation of the Richard Wrangham's work in Demonic Males.
    Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 22 Apr. 2013
Noun
  • While In Office By Zoltan Istvan Author 0 Today, there are developers around the world working on creating artificial intelligence (AI) agents that can autonomously do millions of useful things, like book airline tickets, dispute credit card charges, and even trade crypto.
    Barbara A. Perry, Newsweek, 28 Jan. 2025
  • Witherspoon said the woman who stuck her hand into the dog fight lost the dispute.
    Edward Segarra, USA TODAY, 27 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The introduction of the OEP is not without controversy, as is exemplified by the case of Mike Wallace.
    Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 2 Feb. 2025
  • Meanwhile, a Senate committee advanced Russell Vought, Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Management Budget, which has been embroiled in a controversy over pausing federal funding.
    Aysha Bagchi, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • In our 27 years of working with grassroots and immigrant faith leaders across NYC, the Interfaith Center of New York has found that there are plenty of areas of disagreement between faith traditions.
    Chloe Breyer, New York Daily News, 31 Jan. 2025
  • Easier Said Than Done Speaking of their disagreement, another common answer in the thread was no one was in the wrong.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 31 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • After Germany occupied Norway in 1940 and Adolf Hitler’s troops invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, Svalbard became a key point of military contestation.
    James Patton Rogers & Caroline Kennedy Pipe / Made by History , TIME, 23 Jan. 2025
  • What that does is take these decisions out of the space of democratic contestation.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2025

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“Dissensus.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dissensus. Accessed 7 Feb. 2025.

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