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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Such torrential downpours, from loyalists and dissenters alike, often follow the deaths of notorious and long-ruling dictators—Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Saddam Hussein.—
Gal Beckerman,
The Atlantic,
3 Mar. 2026 -
One of those dissenters was the linguist Mark Liberman, who lambasted the word numerous times over the years in his blog Language Log.—
Harmeet Kaur,
CNN Money,
25 Feb. 2026
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Skip to content Both loyalists and dissidents wept over the death of Ayatollah Khamenei.—
Gal Beckerman,
The Atlantic,
3 Mar. 2026
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Newspapers were closed, dissidents jailed, and candidates kept off the ballot.—
Karl Vick,
Time,
28 Feb. 2026
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“Dissentients.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dissentients. Accessed 7 Mar. 2026.
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