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dissident

adjective as in disagreeing, differing

noun as in person who holds different belief

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The son of a German soldier in Hitler's Nazi army has defended Pinochet, who overthrew a democratically elected socialist president in 1973 and oversaw a regime that killed thousands of dissidents.

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But it’s also easy to notice Farsi’s ingrained cynicism about the state of things, having once been imprisoned as a teenage dissident during the years following her country’s Islamic Revolution, now in exile.

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Sánchez said that the camp belonged to members of a dissident group led by a commander known by the alias of Iván Mordisco.

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Instead, as a right-wing authoritarian leader, he’s killed opponents, thrown dissidents in jail, eliminated an independent media in Russia and imposed a religious, anti-LGBTQ+, misogynistic agenda on its society.

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The company, which has faced lawsuits and U.S. government sanctions since revelations that its technology was used to spy on political dissidents, human-rights advocates, journalists and American officials, declined to disclose the purchase price.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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