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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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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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  • Putin has rehabilitated the World War II–era Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, who, as the Soviet physicist and dissident Andrei Sakharov has said, was directly responsible for even more millions of deaths than Hitler.
    ANTONY BEEVOR, Foreign Affairs, 7 May 2025
  • Other members of the dissident community, however, remained suspicious of Wang’s conduct.
    Brian Nishii Tanya Pérez Quinton Kamara, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2025
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  • His legendary predecessor Sachin Tendulkar, an almost god-like figure in India, and Australian maverick Shane Warne, who lived a life of glitz and glamor, were similarly box office and, quite frankly, better Test cricketers.
    Tristan Lavalette, Forbes.com, 12 May 2025
  • Around 2016, a poem about the Black polar explorer Matthew Henson by her friend Robin Coste Lewis—another maverick of the archives—helped inspire a series of paintings about the Arctic, which flood its frozen landscapes with electric blues.
    Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 5 May 2025
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  • Norman also said the bill should be adjusted to enact work requirements for childless Medicaid recipients without disabilities earlier than 2029, as the existing legislation proposes, while other Republican dissenters cited the need to more quickly eliminate Biden-era clean energy tax credits.
    Sara Dorn, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
  • However, that still requires all Republicans to vote together on the bill, and just a couple of dissenters can derail the entire effort.
    Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 May 2025
Adjective
  • Kennedy has drawn attention for his unconventional approaches to health and wellness, during his presidential campaign and in the months after joining the Trump administration.
    Dan Gooding Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 May 2025
  • But his sponsor’s unconventional approach pulls Peter further off course and pushes him into a living hell that’ll take far more than 12 steps to escape.
    Zac Ntim, Deadline, 12 May 2025
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  • His band of renegades is deeply committed to their mission and the members enjoy working together to overcome obstacles.
    Chip Bell, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
  • Sure enough, the red-haired renegade formerly known as Sin Rostro played another troublemaker on the ABC procedural.
    Andy Swift, TVLine, 10 Apr. 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
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  • But the settlers’ belief in the value of public goods and embrace of independent thinkers remain woven into the character of the city, which continues to attract artists, eccentrics and writers.
    Isabelle Taft, New York Times, 4 May 2025
  • Robert Redford delivers folksy wisdom as a local eccentric who once had his own dragon encounter, and even Karl Urban’s greedy logger is more of a nuisance than an outright villain.
    Josh Bell, Vulture, 21 Mar. 2025

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