dissenter

Example Sentences

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Miran was the only dissenter to the Fed’s decision to not change interest rates last week.

From MarketWatch

In the south and Midlands of England, Defoe had built an information network among religious dissenters and monitored popular sentiment on important constitutional questions.

From The Wall Street Journal

Leaders backed their vision of stability and security with a high-tech surveillance state that silenced dissenters and imprisoned extremists, ensuring Dubai remained largely untouched by terrorism.

From The Wall Street Journal

So much so that we have names for the type: maverick, individualist, iconoclast, dissenter, rebel, freethinker.

From The Wall Street Journal

Smaller assault packages, meanwhile, could boost morale among protesters but ultimately not change the regime’s crackdown against dissenters, the officials said.

From The Wall Street Journal