dissenter
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“John Marshall Harlan, the great dissenter, who dissented in Wong Kim Ark and later gave a bunch of lectures, he posed the question about the sojourners,” Justice Neil Gorsuch said.
From Salon ● Jun. 25, 2026
Miran was the only dissenter to the Fed’s decision to not change interest rates last week.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 23, 2026
Governor Stephen Miran was the lone dissenter, favoring a cut.
From Barron's ● Mar. 18, 2026
So much so that we have names for the type: maverick, individualist, iconoclast, dissenter, rebel, freethinker.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 18, 2026
The occasional dissenter accuses me of betraying my fellow officers and being a rat, asserting that “what goes on in corrections should stay in corrections.”
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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