dissident

Example Sentences

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My own family fled after the 2021 military coup when my mother was put on a wanted list for being a prominent dissident.

From Slate • Mar. 19, 2026

The commander - who is white haired and softly spoken - belongs to a small dissident group called Komala of the Toilers of Kurdistan.

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026

A family dispute has also caught attention: his sister Badri fell out with her family in the 1980s and fled to Iraq in the war to join her husband, a dissident cleric.

From Barron's • Feb. 28, 2026

Cuban authorities initially incorrectly identified one of the detainees as Roberto Azcorra Consuegra, a dissident living in the U.S., raising questions about what Cuba’s regime knew about the plot.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

“It’s about this meg normal guy, who doesn’t think about anything until one wacky day, when he meets a dissident with a heart of gold.”

From "Feed" by M.T. Anderson