Example Sentences

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Dissents should occur during “difficult moments like the current one, where the Fed’s two goals are in tension,” said Kohn.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 22, 2025

Dissents have, of course, no precedential value in the conventional sense.

From New York Times • Apr. 4, 2022

Dissents from the bench in contentious cases go back to the 1940s.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 3, 2020

Dissents do not exist in Belgium, France and Italy.

From Salon • Jul. 18, 2018

The Chairman Dissents On the whole these drastic findings are against the weight of evidence.

From Native Life in South Africa by Plaatje, Sol (Solomon Tshekisho)