dissenter
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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the lone dissenter, frames Colorado’s law as prohibiting merely “a dangerous therapy modality that, incidentally, involves provider speech.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026
Governor Stephen Miran was the lone dissenter, favoring a cut.
From Barron's • Mar. 18, 2026
The other dissenter, Kanas City Fed chief Jeffrey Schmid, said “inflation remains too high.”
From MarketWatch • Dec. 12, 2025
Otherwise, the dissenter could thwart the majority’s will by dragging their feet to run out the clock.
From Slate • Nov. 20, 2025
The occasional dissenter accuses me of betraying my fellow officers and being a rat, asserting that “what goes on in corrections should stay in corrections.”
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
