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dissenting

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verb

present participle of dissent

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Recent Examples of dissenting
Adjective
Los Angeles City Councilwoman Nithya Raman was the sole dissenting vote. Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2022 No Russian official who spoke gave a dissenting view. Nomaan Merchant and Vladimir Isachenkov, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Mar. 2022
Verb
Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson offered a dissent to the high court’s decision to allow Slaughter to be fired while the case plays out, with a dissenting opinion written by Kagan. Jack Birle, The Washington Examiner, 22 Sep. 2025 Through cancel culture, the capture of schools and universities, corporate coercion, and media dominance, dissenting voices have been silenced. Carolyn McKinney, Boston Herald, 22 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for dissenting
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dissenting
Adjective
  • He had been involved in dissident circles since his student days, in the nineties.
    Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Karmitz touted France as a country where a company like mk2 can represent a diverse range of filmmakers, including current films by Iranian, Palestinian, and Russian dissident directors.
    Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 27 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Silence could mean many different things for different people, going from strongly agreeing, to strongly disagreeing, or even being ignored.
    Diane Brady, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Looking at an album and seeing a rating or disagreeing with everybody else — what did said magazine say?
    Michael Saponara, Billboard, 2 Oct. 2025

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“Dissenting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dissenting. Accessed 13 Oct. 2025.

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