dissensions

variants also dissentions
plural of dissension
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Noun
  • Your dedicated Slack channels, private discords and endless Reddit threads.
    April Uchitel, Flow Space, 6 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • According to him, advances in machine learning have yanked questions once trapped inside theological/philosophical disputations into corporate board packs.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The town had burned to the ground, and most of the Spanish settlers were dead, either of disease or in violent disputes about gold with indigenous peoples.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Some residents, like Leiva, consider Santa Rosa to be a paradise where international disputes feel more distant than the power of the river.
    Isa Cardona, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The official inauguration, originally scheduled for July 3, 2025, was postponed to the last quarter of the year due to regional conflicts.
    MSNBC Newsweek, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Introduced by FilmNation last fall as a sales title at AFM, the film originally had Alan Ritchson attached to star opposite Midthunder, though he was reportedly forced to exit the project due to scheduling conflicts.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 27 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Members of Congress are entrenched in disagreements over health care policy with little bipartisanship on the horizon.
    Zachary Schermele, USA Today, 26 Oct. 2025
  • The dispute could affect billions of dollars in cross-border trade and set a new precedent for handling disagreements over the use of public figures and historic addresses in political messaging.
    Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • High tariffs inevitably lead to retaliation by foreign countries and the triggering of fierce trade wars.
    Bill Barrow, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Known as one of the costliest wars in history, the death of hundreds of thousands of soldiers has been attributed to battle, as well as starvation, cold and a typhus epidemic that broke out.
    Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • While the band is preparing for its return to the spotlight, past controversies continue to follow them.
    Jessica Lynch, Billboard, 26 Oct. 2025
  • However, this new poll indicates that at least among young voters, controversies tied to extremist symbols may not turn the dial with their loyalties, highlighting a potential limit of the impact of scandals in modern campaigns and a potential shift in political tolerance.
    Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • If Gorsuch and Kavanaugh have attracted blowback for their individual writings of late, on the left side of the court, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's rhetoric has also raised eyebrows for her slashing dissents.
    Nina Totenberg, NPR, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Annie says that trust doesn’t exist in this game, but Sophi dissents.
    Nick Caruso, TVLine, 1 Oct. 2025
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