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dissent

[dih-sent] / dɪˈsɛnt /




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I’m not sure what factors the justice was considering before his dissent, but it could not have been league history.

From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026

In dissent, Justice Neil Gorsuch, a Trump appointee, said the Mississippi state courts had concluded that Pitchford’s trial team had forfeited a portion of their argument about racially discriminatory jury selection.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

In Flowers, Justice Clarence Thomas confidently declared in dissent that Mississippi could retry and convict Curtis Flowers.

From Slate • May 28, 2026

Politically, dissent has been punished as severely as ever.

From BBC • May 25, 2026

It replaced the professorial lecture, the voice of authority, by a text in whose margin you could scribble your dissent.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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