dissent
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“At this point, only the Supreme Court can bring uniformity and settle this question once and for all. I anticipate that it will do so soon,” Judge Diane S. Sykes wrote in her dissent.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
The trend underscores how dissent is increasingly being shaped by internet culture, particularly among the Gen Z.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
At the very least, some officials will almost certainly dissent in favor of hiking.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 25, 2026
The officials pressing to raise rates are the more insistent, and a few of them are candidates to dissent if rates stay on hold.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
She takes caution for cowardice and dissent for defiance.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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It was the most dissents in a decade at a normally unified Fed.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026
Although dissents aren’t rare, Fed chairmen have often sought to project leadership by soliciting consensus.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
"I don't expect a rate hike, but I do expect dissents," said Diane Swonk, chief economist at KPMG.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
But when the court was closely split in major cases, Kennedy was likely to be in majority while Scalia wrote scathing and increasingly personal dissents.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026
He uses a rough kind of memoria technica to enable him to mark passages with which he agrees, from which he dissents, which he desires to qualify, or which he reserves for future reference.
From McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1 by Various
The decision marked the first time since 2016 that three Federal Reserve officials dissented in the same direction.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
On Wednesday, the Fed chose to keep interest rates steady despite those push factors, although three policymakers dissented and called for an immediate rate hike.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
The decision marked the first time three Fed officials dissented in the same direction since fall 2016.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026
Three of the court's nine justices dissented from the decision: Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch and Samuel Alito.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
The vote was unanimous, although one member, navy undersecretary Ralph Bard, presently dissented from the third recommendation, resigned his post, and proposed to Stimson that the Japanese receive two or three days’ warning.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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The pressure intensified after the Fed on Wednesday held its benchmark rate at 3.5% to 3.75% for a fifth consecutive meeting, with three policymakers dissenting in favor of an increase.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 2, 2026
Treasury yields extended recent gains on Friday after three central bank officials explained why they cast dissenting votes in favor of raising interest rates this week.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
Justice Sonia Sotomayor, dissenting with Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson, went after the profit motive that leads agencies to seize first and justify later.
From Slate ● Jul. 28, 2026
“It’s the kind of vibe that doesn’t allow for a dissenting voice.”
From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2026
The White House meeting that formally inaugurated the thermonuclear age took all of seven minutes, and it only lasted that long because Lilienthal asked for the time to express his dissenting view.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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