as in dissenters
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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If Homelander's takeover of the United States government and rounding up of his chief dissenters took place around Inauguration Day in January, Godolkin University's fall semester kicks off around the end of August.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
27 Aug. 2025 -
Though the five-justice majority agreed that’s true for the grant cancellations, Barrett agreed with the dissenters that a separate part of Young’s ruling wiping NIH guidance documents could still stand.—
Zach Schonfeld,
The Hill,
21 Aug. 2025
Noun
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This came after a lengthy trial in which US prosecutors accused him of exchanging firearms for cocaine shipments with the now-defunct FARC guerrillas, whose dissidents in Colombia control some of the key regions for narcotics production.—
Stefano Pozzebon,
CNN Money,
1 Sep. 2025
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These are the Russian dissidents Putin allegedly targeted at home and abroad for aggressively opposing his autocratic kleptocracy.—
Andy Shaw,
Chicago Tribune,
22 Aug. 2025
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“Heresiarchs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/heresiarchs. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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