dissentient

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noun

as in dissenter
a person who believes, teaches, or advocates something opposed to accepted beliefs traditionalists who feared that their church was falling into the hands of dissentients and malcontents

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Adjective
  • In one case, operatives posing as art dealers interested in purchasing a work by a dissident artist secretly installed surveillance equipment in his workplace and a GPS tracker on his car.
    David Faris, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Apr. 2025
  • He’d been allowed through the security checkpoint to attend a session given by a professor at the university, a Tunisian dissident and political exile, a specialist in the liberation movements of the Global South.
    David Bezmozgis, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Blackman speculated that Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh may have supported the dissenters’ view but chose not to side publicly with Trump.
    Kaelan Deese, The Washington Examiner, 21 Apr. 2025
  • The four dissenters are Republican appointees, including three named by Trump in his first term.
    Lindsay Whitehurst and Michael Kunzelman, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • In the dissenting view, the star collapses to the edge of the event horizon and then hovers there, or rebounds and explodes.
    Corey S. Powell, Discover Magazine, 26 Feb. 2015
  • The document runs to more than a hundred and fifty pages, and for each question there are affirmative and dissenting studies, as well as some that indicate mixed results.
    The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 3 June 2022
Adjective
  • That meant the movie, which sees an unconventional band of antiheroes brought together to combat a supervillain, escaped a decision by China to curb Hollywood imports earlier this month as part of its retaliation against the United States.
    Casey Hall and Sophie Yu, USA Today, 1 May 2025
  • From backing unconventional shows like Stranger Things to challenging Hollywood’s release models, Netflix has cultivated a ‘risk position’ that runs through its culture, structure, leadership, and decision-making.
    London School of Economics, Forbes.com, 30 Apr. 2025
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“Dissentient.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dissentient. Accessed 3 May. 2025.

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