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dissenter

noun as in dissident

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One of the most common arguments raised by dissenters is that vaccine mandates infringe upon unvaccinated people’s human rights and civil liberties.

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The short opinion, with Justice Clarence Thomas as the lone dissenter, was the court’s latest attempt to clarify the free-speech rights of the nation’s 50 million public school students, and a rare win for student speech.

Suddenly, Lieber went from perennial dissenter to board president.

Roberts, the other dissenter in the Ramos case, was more difficult to read.

Kagan, although a dissenter in Ramos, suggested this might be another.

I think you should give the dissenter the respect to respond to the points that he makes.

Among the committee members, Meretz MK Zehava Gal-On was the sole dissenter.

By expressing my doubts, I am clearly a dissenter in this persistent force for progress.

McCain thinks of himself as a maverick, an unorthodox thinker, a dissenter.

I wanted to see a live Dissenter, I believe, and yet I wished it were over.

New-Rochelle was then a parish, and its rector, of course, considered the French preacher a dissenter.

The four lieutenants stepped out of the way, so that the single dissenter might stand alone.

The squire was interested in the land and the church; the merchant thought more of commerce and was apt to be a dissenter.

I heard an earnest middle-aged dissenter preach a sermon on that text a few days ago.

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On this page you'll find 30 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to dissenter, such as: protester, skeptic, heretic, nonconformist, objector, and rebel.

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

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