as in disputes
variance of opinion on a matter
a democracy relies on dissensus as much as on consensus
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Showdowns over international inspectors caused years of disputes between the US and Saddam Hussein’s Iraq and more recently Iran.
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Council members ultimately said the purpose of the sister city program was to build relationships between communities, not to settle international political disputes.
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Has this reignited the controversies surrounding you and your translation?
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Around the same time, Hogshead began a letter writing campaign aimed at drawing broader attention to Butler’s controversies and urging other volleyball organizations and teams to disassociate themselves from him.
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According to him, advances in machine learning have yanked questions once trapped inside theological/philosophical disputations into corporate board packs.
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The measure received bipartisan support from legislators and was approved with little discussion Thursday, unlike the housing bond and ‘rainy day fund’ debates.
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But the conversations and debates happening — whether within families, in clinics, or on public platforms — should be based on facts, not judgment.
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For Ossoff, the battleground appears to extend beyond policy disagreements and partisan loyalties.
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Tell me about those disagreements and whether the G7 was able to come to any resolution here.
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Between the two cities, the similarities and differences in the origins of those communities make Melbourne’s culinary fabric both innately familiar to Angelenos, and also something wholly distinct to experience.
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Notably, these differences in cancer mortality between rural and urban counties were originally small and only began to increase when overall national cancer rates began to drop.
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“Dissensuses.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dissensuses. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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