dissenter

Example Sentences

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In the south and Midlands of England, Defoe had built an information network among religious dissenters and monitored popular sentiment on important constitutional questions.

From The Wall Street Journal

Leaders backed their vision of stability and security with a high-tech surveillance state that silenced dissenters and imprisoned extremists, ensuring Dubai remained largely untouched by terrorism.

From The Wall Street Journal

So much so that we have names for the type: maverick, individualist, iconoclast, dissenter, rebel, freethinker.

From The Wall Street Journal

Smaller assault packages, meanwhile, could boost morale among protesters but ultimately not change the regime’s crackdown against dissenters, the officials said.

From The Wall Street Journal

White women like Good are not just dissenters within the racial in-group, however, they are proof that the entire white nationalist story about inheritance and destiny is unstable.

From Salon