How to Use dissident in a Sentence

dissident

adjective
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  • Their raspy and dissident squawks are quite out of tune.
    — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Dec. 2023
  • Sorokin doesn’t fit the classic mold of a dissident writer.
    — New York Times, 16 Apr. 2022
  • In 1999, O’Connor was ordained as a priest in a dissident Roman Catholic group.
    — Brianne Tracy, PEOPLE.com, 9 Sep. 2019
  • Roy’s fall from darling to dissident was swift, and her landing rough.
    — Samanth Subramanian, The New Yorker, 12 June 2019
  • Until it was handed over to China by the British in 1997, Hong Kong was a safe haven for dissident writers and artists.
    — Time, 13 June 2019
  • Last November, more than 150 dissident church members voted to fire Welch and most of the church’s trustees.
    — Rafael Olmeda, sun-sentinel.com, 22 July 2021
  • The takeover was messy, with a vote postponed three times as Rio sought to win support from dissident shareholders.
    — Thomas Biesheuvel, Dinesh Nair and Jack Farchy, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Jan. 2023
  • The city's café culture has made a strong comeback (the communists had closed down the cafés, fearing a dissident breeding ground).
    — Rick Steves, USA TODAY, 28 Nov. 2019
  • Why the arrests of artists such as dissident rapper Maykel Castillo?
    — Tracy Wilkinsonstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2022
  • Energy giant Exxon fought hard to fend off the dissident slate.
    — Justin Baer, WSJ, 28 May 2021
  • Those efforts have fallen short of the demands of Exxon’s dissident investor groups.
    — Cathy Bussewitz, Anchorage Daily News, 25 May 2021
  • Those efforts have fallen short of the demands of Exxon's dissident investor groups.
    — Cathy Bussewitz, Chron, 25 May 2021
  • Berta Soler, center, and other women from the dissident group Ladies in White march in Havana in 2012.
    — Mimi Whitefield, miamiherald, 14 June 2018
  • His family, who live in the U.S., say Nguyen is innocent and not involved with any dissident groups.
    — Hillary Leung, Time, 11 June 2019
  • Once the farmers cleared out too, about a century ago, the area became a haven for a certain kind of dissident thinker drawn to its remoteness.
    — Marisa Meltzer, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Apr. 2021
  • The list includes members of dissident groups and a journalist.
    — Matthew Lee, The Seattle Times, 11 Dec. 2018
  • In September 2021, a dissident board member called for the entire board to be replaced and for LaPierre’s removal.
    — Robert Spitzer, The Conversation, 24 Nov. 2021
  • Hong Kong’s museum bowed to pressure to remove some of the work of dissident artist Ai Weiwei from its display.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 17 Mar. 2023
  • The Teamsters have faced challenges from dissident groups criticizing deals the union has reached.
    — Kelly Yamanouchi, ajc, 10 July 2018
  • Since taking the helm in 2019, Welch came under fire from dissident church members and other critics.
    — David Lyons, Sun Sentinel, 12 Mar. 2023
  • And a dissident faction of FARC remains in the jungle nearby, taking in new recruits.
    — New York Times, 26 Sep. 2021
  • Andrei Sakharov, the dissident and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, who at the time was a thirty-one-year-old nuclear-weapons researcher, recalled.
    — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2019
  • Some now fear a return to the dark days of Abiy’s predecessors, when dissident bloggers were tortured.
    — The Economist, 15 Aug. 2019
  • Activists on both sides of the Atlantic pushed for disarmament and even reached out to dissident groups in Warsaw Pact countries.
    — Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2023
  • That man, dissident Miles Guo, was charged earlier this year in a billion-dollar fraud scheme in New York and remains detained.
    — Robert Legare, CBS News, 26 Apr. 2023
  • Rasoulof’s friend, and fellow dissident director Jafar Panahi, was allowed to leave Iran last week to travel abroad, for the first time in 14 years.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 May 2023
  • In addition to the election of two new independent directors, the votes over two others from the dissident slate were too close to call.
    — Arkansas Online, 27 May 2021
  • At least one speaker at the event reportedly received tens of thousands of dollars from the dissident group.
    — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 10 July 2023
  • Oleg Orlov, 71; political dissident and human rights activist who was jailed for criticizing Russia and the Ukraine war.
    — George Petras, USA TODAY, 6 Aug. 2024
  • Boric’s government believes that the group may be responsible for the kidnapping and murder, in February, of a Venezuelan former military officer turned dissident who had been granted asylum in Chile.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 12 Sep. 2024

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