dissident
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Appeared in the December 23, 2025, print edition as 'China Stalks a Hong Kong Dissident'.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 22, 2025
Dissident GOP Sen. Dennis Pyle, from the state’s northeastern corner, said lawmakers were making progress.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 29, 2024
Dissident Peronist Juan Schiaretti from Hacemos por Nuestro País and Myriam Bregman from the leftist Frente de Izquierda coalition are also on the ballot, but polls report their voter support at less than 6% each.
From Reuters • Oct. 16, 2023
Dissident republicanism is made up of various groups which broke away from the Provisional IRA in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, including the Continuity IRA and New IRA.
From BBC • Feb. 24, 2023
On the Dissident Question itself he needs spurring: a King of liberal ideas, yes; but with such flames of fanaticism under the nose of him.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 21 by Carlyle, Thomas
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