How to Use dissident in a Sentence

dissident

adjective
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  • Their raspy and dissident squawks are quite out of tune.
    — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Dec. 2023
  • Sorokin doesn’t fit the classic mold of a dissident writer.
    — New York Times, 16 Apr. 2022
  • In 1999, O’Connor was ordained as a priest in a dissident Roman Catholic group.
    — Brianne Tracy, PEOPLE.com, 9 Sep. 2019
  • Roy’s fall from darling to dissident was swift, and her landing rough.
    — Samanth Subramanian, The New Yorker, 12 June 2019
  • Until it was handed over to China by the British in 1997, Hong Kong was a safe haven for dissident writers and artists.
    — Time, 13 June 2019
  • Under the new agreement, the dissident group, founded in 2011, will dissolve and join the mainline Democrats.
    — Corinne Ramey, WSJ, 4 Apr. 2018
  • Last November, more than 150 dissident church members voted to fire Welch and most of the church’s trustees.
    — Rafael Olmeda, sun-sentinel.com, 22 July 2021
  • The takeover was messy, with a vote postponed three times as Rio sought to win support from dissident shareholders.
    — Thomas Biesheuvel, Dinesh Nair and Jack Farchy, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Jan. 2023
  • The city's café culture has made a strong comeback (the communists had closed down the cafés, fearing a dissident breeding ground).
    — Rick Steves, USA TODAY, 28 Nov. 2019
  • Why the arrests of artists such as dissident rapper Maykel Castillo?
    — Tracy Wilkinsonstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2022
  • Energy giant Exxon fought hard to fend off the dissident slate.
    — Justin Baer, WSJ, 28 May 2021
  • Egan Jones recommended a vote for the dissident shareholders and the new board.
    — Erin Arvedlund, Philly.com, 23 May 2018
  • Those efforts have fallen short of the demands of Exxon's dissident investor groups.
    — Cathy Bussewitz, Chron, 25 May 2021
  • Those efforts have fallen short of the demands of Exxon’s dissident investor groups.
    — Cathy Bussewitz, Anchorage Daily News, 25 May 2021
  • Berta Soler, center, and other women from the dissident group Ladies in White march in Havana in 2012.
    — Mimi Whitefield, miamiherald, 14 June 2018
  • This is not the first brush with theocratic law for the dissident director, who’s been working steadily out of Iran for two decades.
    — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 27 Nov. 2024
  • At one point the dissident, who asked that his name be withheld for his safety, lost consciousness and had to be taken to the hospital.
    — Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2018
  • His family, who live in the U.S., say Nguyen is innocent and not involved with any dissident groups.
    — Hillary Leung, Time, 11 June 2019
  • Once the farmers cleared out too, about a century ago, the area became a haven for a certain kind of dissident thinker drawn to its remoteness.
    — Marisa Meltzer, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Apr. 2021
  • The list includes members of dissident groups and a journalist.
    — Matthew Lee, The Seattle Times, 11 Dec. 2018
  • In September 2021, a dissident board member called for the entire board to be replaced and for LaPierre’s removal.
    — Robert Spitzer, The Conversation, 24 Nov. 2021
  • Hong Kong’s museum bowed to pressure to remove some of the work of dissident artist Ai Weiwei from its display.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 17 Mar. 2023
  • ISS said in its report that at least some of the Granite stock increase came as a result of the dissident shareholders’ efforts.
    — Scott Deveau, Bloomberg.com, 3 June 2017
  • My experiences in North Korea have taught me that the donju are the closest thing North Korea has to a dissident class.
    — Travis Jeppesen, WSJ, 1 June 2018
  • A call for conformity around the country that exists — not the imaginary utopia some dissident faction seeks to build in its place.
    — J. J. McCullough, National Review, 28 Aug. 2017
  • The Teamsters have faced challenges from dissident groups criticizing deals the union has reached.
    — Kelly Yamanouchi, ajc, 10 July 2018
  • Since taking the helm in 2019, Welch came under fire from dissident church members and other critics.
    — David Lyons, Sun Sentinel, 12 Mar. 2023
  • And a dissident faction of FARC remains in the jungle nearby, taking in new recruits.
    — New York Times, 26 Sep. 2021
  • This time, Turkey’s dissident officers tried to take only some of these steps, and succeeded in none of them.
    — Max Fisher and Amanda Taub, New York Times, 16 July 2016
  • That’s best demonstrated by a novel gameplay mechanic in the form of a camera that Indy acquires from a dissident postman called Ernesto.
    — Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 18 Dec. 2024

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