as in dissenters
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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Noun
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At the far end of the hall, a young man in his mid-20s named Simon Bonenfant was posing like one of the dissenters, Elbridge Gerry.—
Tribune News Service,
Baltimore Sun,
11 May 2026 -
The dissenters largely expressed the view that the next move could be higher or lower, depending on how conditions unfold.—
Jeff Cox,
CNBC,
8 May 2026
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The new report describes a sprawling transnational criminal system in which Brazilian syndicates, Colombian guerrilla dissidents, Ecuadorian gangs and local crime families collaborate and compete simultaneously while moving drugs, gold, weapons and money across porous borders.—
Antonio María Delgado,
Miami Herald,
13 May 2026
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One of us even faced an assassination plot in Canada and concluded he was poisoned in Russia for defending Iranian human rights lawyers and Russian dissidents.—
Irwin Cotler,
Time,
8 May 2026
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“Dissentients.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dissentients. Accessed 16 May. 2026.
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