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dissent

[dih-sent] / dΙͺˈsΙ›nt /




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I saw this first hand with his dissent towards a fitness fielding session in the build-up to the 2014 Sydney Test match, among others.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

Alito wrote an eight-page dissent, arguing that the Postal Service has “broad power to regulate the delivery of mail.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

But a sweeping national security law imposed by Beijing on Hong Kong in 2020 after huge pro-democracy protests has stymied dissent in the financial hub.

From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026

Though the exhibition intended to grapple with Galliano’s fall from grace and create a necessary dialogue about the limitations of artistic reverence, the dissent was too strong.

From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2026

Dumbledore made a small noise of dissent through his long, crooked nose.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling

The decision to hold the benchmark rate steady between 3.5% and 3.75% drew three dissents from Fed presidents who thought a rate increase was warranted.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

That number of dissents is unusual and illustrative of the challenge the Fed faces in bringing inflation back down to its two-percent target -- a level it hasn't hit in more than five years.

From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026

Three of the 12 senior Fed officials who vote on interest rates favored an increase, marking the most dissents since 2016.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026

The only way to figure out how the justices decided is if there were dissents.

From Slate ● Jul. 29, 2026

The watermen in Lucian give the preference to a jackdaw: but Antipater in some degree dissents, and thinks that the swan has the advantage.

From A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.) by Jacob Bryant

At the July meeting, nine top Fed officials were in the hold camp and three dissented in favor of a rate hike.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026

But Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. dissented, along with the court’s three liberals.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2026

Three officials dissented in favor of a rate increase last month.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

Minutes of the July meeting show more Federal Reserve officials favored raising interest rates than the three who formally dissented.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

“Outstanding people left because the atmosphere at the Radiation Laboratory. . . did not make people who dissented feel they were welcome,” observed David Saxon, the future university president.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

Former Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., who now serves as the mayor of Oakland, cast the only dissenting vote.

From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026

"The battle for succession has largely remained an in-house rather than a national matter following the weakening of political institutions and the crushing of dissenting voices," said Waluya.

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

And as Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson warned in her solo dissenting opinion from the per curiam order, the real issue is not that the court punted a decision on the merits here.

From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2026

The motion was approved on a 10-3 vote at Tuesday’s council meeting, with Imelda Padilla, Traci Park and Monica Rodriguez dissenting.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026

But it was also meant to be a godly community, a religious home for the Puritans, who did not tolerate dissenting views on spiritual matters.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz




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