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as in dissident
deviating from commonly accepted beliefs or practices a cattle-ranching family that took some time in getting used to their daughter's nonconformist adoption of vegetarianism

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nonconformist

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noun

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Noun
In her breakthrough piece, Heretic, Graham is dressed in white and rebuffed and rebuked by a group of 12 women dressed in black: the punishment of the nonconformist. Charlie Tyson, The Atlantic, 18 Oct. 2022 Ye, however, was widely known to be both a perfectionist and a nonconformist. New York Times, 25 July 2022 Fedoras, trilbys and Panamas seem to proclaim the wearer as either an extravagant nonconformist or an anti-feminist reactionary. New York Times, 15 July 2022 The Return of Tanya Tucker is a fittingly unconventional portrait of a nonconformist. Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Mar. 2022 See All Example Sentences for nonconformist
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Adjective
  • When an unexpected request comes from a dissident singer in hiding, his solitude and routine is broken — and so is to an extent his passivity.
    Callum McLennan, Variety, 7 Aug. 2025
  • The spy agency tipped off an Iranian dissident group, which went public with the revelation two years later.
    Yossi Melman, ProPublica, 7 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • In 1972, American maverick Bobby Fischer first breached the frontier by winning the world championship at the height of the Cold War.
    Omkar Khandekar, NPR, 5 Aug. 2025
  • In the Wild West, mavericks, often rebellious individuals — played enormous roles.
    Jim Martin, Denver Post, 3 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The leader of the Catholic Church in southeast Michigan has abruptly fired three professors at a Detroit seminary who were critical of Pope Francis, the latest move by Archbishop of Detroit Edward Weisenburger that cracks down on conservative dissenters.
    Niraj Warikoo, Freep.com, 1 Aug. 2025
  • When supporters of the old Anglican order sought to impose a new church tax in 1784, dissenters reacted with outrage.
    Time, Time, 10 July 2025
Adjective
  • The hero’s journey on this show is achieving their unconventional American dream.
    Giana Levy, Variety, 16 Aug. 2025
  • And when goals did go in, the unconventional trajectory of the Jabulani was oddly fascinating.
    Michael Cox, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • And, of course, my fantasy went right to some kind of renegade character along the lines of Saw Gerrera.
    Dalton Ross, EW.com, 16 May 2025
  • 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
Adjective
  • In the dissenting view, the star collapses to the edge of the event horizon and then hovers there, or rebounds and explodes.
    Corey S. Powell, Discover Magazine, 26 Feb. 2015
  • The document runs to more than a hundred and fifty pages, and for each question there are affirmative and dissenting studies, as well as some that indicate mixed results.
    The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 3 June 2022
Noun
  • Ra’s decades-long adherence to this personal mythology, along with his air of serene bemusement and his extravagant robes and headdresses, led to his popular image as a colorful eccentric.
    Ekow Eshun July 11, Literary Hub, 11 July 2025
  • Other characters include outcasts, visionaries and eccentrics — all of whom live on the margins as unseen — a former priest, a girl trapped in working her family’s candy stand, a woman who learned preaching from her brother and is a caretaker for her dying housemate.
    Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 18 May 2025

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