dissidence

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Unlike their colleagues in the West, whose freedoms allowed them to make clean distinctions between “art” and “activism,” here no easy division was admitted between dissidence and independence, between engagement and refusal.

From New York Times • Jan. 11, 2024

“They write to all my paranoia and anti-establishment dissidence and conspiracy theories. So it’s been a lot of fun for me. A dream, really.”

From Washington Times • Feb. 19, 2023

The source at the Democratic Renovation Union, a group that grew from dissidence within the Sandinista movement, said Torres' family would make an announcement on his death later.

From Reuters • Feb. 12, 2022

“Her central themes revolved around the trinity of creativity, dissidence and revolution,” said Omnia Amin, who translated some of her books into English.

From Washington Post • Mar. 23, 2021

There have, however, been a few dissenters: and I venture to join myself to them in the very dissidence of their dissent.

From The English Novel by Saintsbury, George