dissent
Example Sentences
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Note: Vote counts in emergency decisions assume that any justice who didn't publicly record a dissent voted with the majority.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026
Justice Jackson provides a brief history of the compassionate release statute in her Fernandez dissent.
From Slate • May 29, 2026
What I find most disturbing in this instance is Kavanaugh’s dissent.
From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026
One Saudi who has direct experience of how the authorities there deal with dissent is Abdullah al-Ouda, an academic and human rights activist based in the US.
From BBC • May 25, 2026
From upstairs, the thud of feet on floorboards and children’s voices, two or three at least, talking at once, rising, falling, and rising again, perhaps in dissent, perhaps excited agreement.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
Vocabulary lists containing dissent
The Hunger Games
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Essential Academic Vocabulary for Middle School Students, List 8
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Common Senses: Sent, Sens ("Feel")
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