dissent
Example Sentences
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From this era on, any form of public dissent was not just discouraged but downright illegal.
From BBC • May 30, 2026
Writing for the dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor argues that the Rutherford majority “searches high and low for other statutory limits on what courts may consider when deciding compassionate-release motions.”
From Slate • May 29, 2026
What I find most disturbing in this instance is Kavanaugh’s dissent.
From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026
While Mr. Perl-Rosenthal skillfully charts the public philosophy of the orators, the story feels somewhat incomplete without lingering on the man who effectively codified their dissent into a national creed.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 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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