as in dissident
deviating from commonly accepted beliefs or practices
dissenting views were ruthlessly suppressed under the dictatorship
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as in disagreeing
to have a different opinion
anyone who dissented was encouraged to speak out while they had the chance
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Recent Examples of dissenting
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
Jeff Cox, CNBC, 19 Mar. 2025
Commissioner Amanda Dumas cast the sole dissenting vote.
—Alexandria Sands, Axios, 18 Mar. 2025
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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
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Fed Governor Christopher Waller was the lone dissenting vote for the Fed’s move.
—Jeff Cox, CNBC, 19 Mar. 2025
Commissioner Amanda Dumas cast the sole dissenting vote.
—Alexandria Sands, Axios, 18 Mar. 2025
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In one case, operatives posing as art dealers interested in purchasing a work by a dissident artist secretly installed surveillance equipment in his workplace and a GPS tracker on his car.—
David Faris,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Apr. 2025
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He’d been allowed through the security checkpoint to attend a session given by a professor at the university, a Tunisian dissident and political exile, a specialist in the liberation movements of the Global South.—
David Bezmozgis,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2025
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“Dissenting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dissenting. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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