How to Use dissident in a Sentence

dissident

adjective

• Jeffers’ illustrations of rocket ships, moon-faced children, and dissident crayons march across bookshelves worldwide.
  — Pia Ceres, Wired, 23 Mar. 2020
• However, a number of dissident factions continue to operate in the country.
  — CNN, 19 June 2020
• Their raspy and dissident squawks are quite out of tune.
  — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Dec. 2023
• Sorokin doesn’t fit the classic mold of a dissident writer.
  — New York Times, 16 Apr. 2022
• Last November, more than 150 dissident church members voted to fire Welch and most of the church’s trustees.
  — Rafael Olmeda, sun-sentinel.com, 22 July 2021
• The takeover was messy, with a vote postponed three times as Rio sought to win support from dissident shareholders.
  — Thomas Biesheuvel, Dinesh Nair and Jack Farchy, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Jan. 2023
• Why the arrests of artists such as dissident rapper Maykel Castillo?
  — Tracy Wilkinsonstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2022
• Energy giant Exxon fought hard to fend off the dissident slate.
  — Justin Baer, WSJ, 28 May 2021
• Those efforts have fallen short of the demands of Exxon’s dissident investor groups.
  — Cathy Bussewitz, Anchorage Daily News, 25 May 2021
• Those efforts have fallen short of the demands of Exxon's dissident investor groups.
  — Cathy Bussewitz, Chron, 25 May 2021
• Once the farmers cleared out too, about a century ago, the area became a haven for a certain kind of dissident thinker drawn to its remoteness.
  — Marisa Meltzer, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Apr. 2021
• In September 2021, a dissident board member called for the entire board to be replaced and for LaPierre’s removal.
  — Robert Spitzer, The Conversation, 24 Nov. 2021
• Hong Kong’s museum bowed to pressure to remove some of the work of dissident artist Ai Weiwei from its display.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 17 Mar. 2023
• Since taking the helm in 2019, Welch came under fire from dissident church members and other critics.
  — David Lyons, Sun Sentinel, 12 Mar. 2023
• And a dissident faction of FARC remains in the jungle nearby, taking in new recruits.
  — New York Times, 26 Sep. 2021
• Activists on both sides of the Atlantic pushed for disarmament and even reached out to dissident groups in Warsaw Pact countries.
  — Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2023
• That man, dissident Miles Guo, was charged earlier this year in a billion-dollar fraud scheme in New York and remains detained.
  — Robert Legare, CBS News, 26 Apr. 2023
• Rasoulof’s friend, and fellow dissident director Jafar Panahi, was allowed to leave Iran last week to travel abroad, for the first time in 14 years.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 May 2023
• In addition to the election of two new independent directors, the votes over two others from the dissident slate were too close to call.
  — Arkansas Online, 27 May 2021
• At least one speaker at the event reportedly received tens of thousands of dollars from the dissident group.
  — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 10 July 2023
• Proust, being both gay and Jewish, participated in the two dissident cultures that are at the heart of so much modernist art.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 3 May 2021
• But his apartment, which was close to the main border crossing point into West Berlin, still became a gathering place for dissident artists and thinkers.
  — Christopher F. Schuetze, New York Times, 7 July 2023
• So why is the regime targeting the bases of small dissident Kurdish political groups in northern Iraq?
  — Jonathan Spyer, WSJ, 17 Nov. 2022
• Berkshire may soon have to produce the sort of fuller climate disclosures the dissident shareholders want.
  — New York Times, 25 Apr. 2022
• In the past five years, 292 former FARC combatants have been killed as violence from dissident groups — those that have rejected the accords — has grown.
  — Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2021
• In one case, the regime this year arrested a dissident journalist after forcing his flight to divert to Belarus.
  — Rafal Niedzielski, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Aug. 2021
• Courts in August installed Mr. Maduro’s loyalists at the top of the Tupamaros and three other dissident parties.
  — New York Times, 19 Nov. 2020
• Aside from the the dissident radio programs, Born in Flames is marked by a dizzying surplus of diegetic media: TV screens fill the frame with news broadcasts, talk shows, and documentary clips.
  — Yasmina Price, Vulture, 3 Feb. 2021
• The judge ruled in favor of a dissident shareholder who had sued Tesla, claiming Mr. Musk’s compensation was excessive.
  — Jack Ewing, New York Times, 31 May 2024
• Advertisement The dissident workers started their own alternative website, Long Beach Watchdog.
  — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2024

Last Updated: 30 Sep 2024