dissenters

plural of dissenter
as in dissidents
a person who believes, teaches, or advocates something opposed to accepted beliefs a society that prized conformity very highly and treated dissenters of any kind very harshly

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Recent Examples of dissenters What’s safe for Jews was itself a matter of disagreement among the bill’s backers and dissenters. Calmatters, Mercury News, 14 Oct. 2025 Jerusalem — On a hot Friday morning in September, dozens of Israelis turned up at Gaza’s border fence – not as soldiers, but as dissenters. Zeena Saifi, CNN Money, 5 Oct. 2025 The assumption among his peers had been that authority—law, custom, tradition—got the benefit of the doubt, and dissenters had to explain why they should be allowed to speak. Lula Konner, The New York Review of Books, 4 Oct. 2025 The task force has a record of controversy given its history of targeting protestors, dissenters, and people of color, according to the ACLU. Solcyré Burga, Time, 2 Oct. 2025 The regime has been accused of discrimination, human rights abuses, and suppression of dissenters, which has led to hundreds of thousands of Iranians fleeing since 1979. Kamal Morgan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Sep. 2025 The July meeting was notable for its two dissenters, Governors Christopher Waller and Michelle Bowman. Christina Cheddar Berk, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2025 Yet the unit also targets dissenters and those, including various clans, some backed by Israel, that dare to defy Hamas’s rule. Sean Durns, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025 If Homelander's takeover of the United States government and rounding up of his chief dissenters took place around Inauguration Day in January, Godolkin University's fall semester kicks off around the end of August. EW.com, 27 Aug. 2025
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dissidents
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  • Five other members of the ring were jailed for a total of about 40 years, all accused of gathering detailed information on journalists, dissidents and Ukrainian soldiers being trained at a US military base in Germany.
    Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Also not fitting the West’s preconceptions was the fact that most Soviet dissidents didn’t reject socialism.
    Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 3 Oct. 2025

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“Dissenters.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dissenters. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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