as in dissenter
a person who believes, teaches, or advocates something opposed to accepted beliefs
his about-face on welfare reform has led him to be seen as a heresiarch among his party's faithful
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Noun
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All the justices on the Supreme Court today, even the dissenters, in a recent non-final opinion backing away from the Humphrey’s case, have overlooked Brandeis’ language and concerns.—
George Liebmann,
Baltimore Sun,
1 June 2025 -
That is precisely what the conservatives did last week; the dissenters were correct to call them out.—
Ruth Marcus,
New Yorker,
29 May 2025
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The director Doris Wishman was a renegade: a woman who made lurid exploitation films at a time when American underground cinema was a man’s playground.—
Erik Piepenburg,
New York Times,
2 June 2025
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Krasinski plays Luke, the sort of quippy renegade who clearly watched too many Indiana Jones movies in his youth.—
Frank Scheck,
HollywoodReporter,
22 May 2025
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“Heresiarch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/heresiarch. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.
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