dissident
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Appeared in the December 23, 2025, print edition as 'China Stalks a Hong Kong Dissident'.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 22, 2025
Dissident GOP Sen. Dennis Pyle, from the state’s northeastern corner, said lawmakers were making progress.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 29, 2024
Dissident republicans form a new political party called Saoradh - the Irish word for liberation.
From BBC • Feb. 23, 2023
Dissident groups reject the peace accord negotiated by their former leadership and count some 2,400 fighters in their ranks, according to the government.
From Reuters • Sep. 2, 2022
We will close the Dissident Business for him, cure many a curable Anarchy of Poland, to the satisfaction of Voltaire and all leading spirits of mankind.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 21 by Carlyle, Thomas
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