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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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
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But First … Issue The View from Here During the Cold War, America was a haven for Russian dissidents.—
Air Mail,
Air Mail,
25 Oct. 2025
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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
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“Dissentients.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dissentients. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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