nonconformists

plural of nonconformist

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Noun
  • Yet the unit also targets dissenters and those, including various clans, some backed by Israel, that dare to defy Hamas’s rule.
    Sean Durns, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • Thinkers, surveyors, and religious mavericks, the House of Pynchon had settled into middle-class respectability by the time this Thomas Ruggles Pynchon was born.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2025
  • The unscripted industry was born from creative mavericks who challenged conventions and redefined what television could be.
    Peter White, Deadline, 19 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Now reporters and dissidents are squeezed into slums and dependent on food donations, says Ou, a youth ambassador for the Khmer Movement for Democracy (KMD) and a freedom fellow with the Human Rights Foundation.
    Christine Ro, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Chinese police blocked sensitive news, pinpointing dissidents with unnerving precision.
    Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2025
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