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
  • Putin has rehabilitated the World War II–era Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, who, as the Soviet physicist and dissident Andrei Sakharov has said, was directly responsible for even more millions of deaths than Hitler.
    ANTONY BEEVOR, Foreign Affairs, 7 May 2025
  • Other members of the dissident community, however, remained suspicious of Wang’s conduct.
    Brian Nishii Tanya Pérez Quinton Kamara, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • However, that still requires all Republicans to vote together on the bill, and just a couple of dissenters can derail the entire effort.
    Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 May 2025
  • Norman also said the bill should be adjusted to enact work requirements for childless Medicaid recipients without disabilities earlier than 2029, as the existing legislation proposes, while other Republican dissenters cited the need to more quickly eliminate Biden-era clean energy tax credits.
    Sara Dorn, Forbes.com, 16 May 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
  • Kennedy has drawn attention for his unconventional approaches to health and wellness, during his presidential campaign and in the months after joining the Trump administration.
    Dan Gooding Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 May 2025
  • But his sponsor’s unconventional approach pulls Peter further off course and pushes him into a living hell that’ll take far more than 12 steps to escape.
    Zac Ntim, Deadline, 12 May 2025
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“Dissentient.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dissentient. Accessed 24 May. 2025.

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