as in dissident
deviating from commonly accepted beliefs or practices
the communist party did not look favorably on dissentient opinions
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as in dissenter
a person who believes, teaches, or advocates something opposed to accepted beliefs
traditionalists who feared that their church was falling into the hands of dissentients and malcontents
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Adjective
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Ferrer, the leader of the dissident organization Unión Patriótica de Cuba, was one of the most prominent political prisoners the Cuban government had been holding as bargaining chips.—
Nora Gámez Torres,
Miami Herald,
17 Jan. 2025 -
Sacred Fig offers Academy voters the rare chance to pick a film from a dissident director.—
Scott Roxborough,
The Hollywood Reporter,
10 Jan. 2025
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Balch was the sole dissenter, instead favoring a tighter belt on the city’s funds.—
Kyle Martin,
The Mercury News,
5 Nov. 2024
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The dissenters—who were ordered to leave Hanover within three days—became known as the Göttingen Seven, and their act of defiance was later enshrined in German history as a banner moment in the nation’s path to democracy.—
Jennifer Wilson,
The New Yorker,
4 Nov. 2024
Adjective
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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
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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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To further enhance its defenses, potential Russian targets have adopted several unconventional air-defense techniques, including the installation of large nets around critical infrastructure to ensnare incoming drones.—
Vikram Mittal,
Forbes,
24 Jan. 2025
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Jack De Mave, who portrayed a U.S. forest ranger on Lassie and an unconventional date for Valerie Harper’s Rhoda Morgenstern on the second episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, has died.—
Mike Barnes,
The Hollywood Reporter,
23 Jan. 2025
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“Dissentient.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dissentient. Accessed 29 Jan. 2025.
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