How to Use dissidence in a Sentence

dissidence

noun
  • The word that comes to my mind is dissidence.
    — Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 30 Jan. 2026
  • The web is where the voices of dissidence that have always been watched, can watch and talk back.
    — Malkia A. Cyril, The Atlantic, 25 Nov. 2014
  • So why aren’t more people signing up for decadent dissidence?
    — Eileen G'sell, The Conversation, 8 June 2026
  • But the historic weekend did not go without a display of dissidence.
    — Alexandra Meeks, CNN, 8 May 2023
  • Their fear is that information might leak out and foment further dissidence elsewhere; the city is to be sealed off.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2020
  • Feet from her, the last of the 76 demonstrators were cuffed and arrested, the dissidence raging on.
    — Hayes Gardner, The Courier-Journal, 9 July 2020
  • However, in a rare show of dissidence, many Russians seemed to disagree with the stance that cell phones were to blame for the attack.
    — Justin Klawans, The Week, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Whether her victory is taken as an act of national pride or dissidence, remains up for discussion.
    — Amah-Rose McKnight-Abrams, CNN, 19 May 2017
  • Even this was considered to be dissidence and was punished accordingly.
    — Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2021
  • Ossandon notes that there are also more docs exploring gender dissidence and identity.
    — Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 17 May 2022
  • There was no burial site or mourning, only the inchoate fear that this sort of retribution could be doled out to anyone exhibiting the slightest sign of dissidence.
    — Ariel Dorfman, The New York Review of Books, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Although Iran is brimming with dissidence, no coherent resistance movement has emerged.
    — Eric S. Edelman, Foreign Affairs, 13 Apr. 2020
  • The case shows not only the criminal and terrorist nature of the Maduro regime but the extent of its nervousness about any military dissidence.
    — Elliott Abrams, Foreign Affairs, 20 Nov. 2025
  • Number two is social order and suppressing any political dissidence.
    — Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2019
  • Today’s dissidence also reminds me of the Underground Railroad.
    — Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 30 Jan. 2026
  • The fervent dissidence, coupled with the rise of new Omicron subvariants, forced many companies either delay or revise those their return-to-office plans.
    — Trey Williams, Fortune, 11 Dec. 2022
  • Riley takes labor relations, and street-level dissidence, very seriously.
    — Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 6 July 2023
  • Ng chooses to contrast oppression and violence with poetic dissidence, which is woven throughout the narrative.
    — Jacqui Palumbo, CNN, 5 Oct. 2022
  • And dissidence and utopianism, new ways of life, other—othered—ethnicities, and hybrid identities were universally amenable.
    — Diedrich Diederichsen, Artforum, 1 Dec. 2025
  • In fact, most such spies agreed to cooperate based on ideological dissidence with their illegitimate governments.
    — Douglas London, CNN, 31 Mar. 2022
  • Kanter has drawn the ire of the Turkish government for his political dissidence throughout his eight-year NBA career.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 4 Oct. 2019
  • And China’s efforts to curtail the room such dissidence has to flourish in worries people who care about free expression on American campuses and beyond.
    — The Economist, 2 Jan. 2020
  • In an unprecedented show of dissidence, many were reportedly heard calling for Chinese President Xi Jinping to step down.
    — Justin Klawans, The Week, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Fur was also extremely present at the shows of many major designers, an interesting choice given the growing dissidence towards its use in fashion (though many argue that fur is more sustainable than synthetic options).
    — Gabrielle Korn, refinery29.com, 25 Feb. 2020
  • On the contrary, Martin’s work is inviting and quite practical, an elementary approach to jovial gestured lines (and letters), creating dissidence from reality.
    — Cassell Ferere, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2021
  • Sri Lanka has had a chronic ethnic Tamil dissidence problem, which in the past has received moral and material support from sections of the Indian population.
    — Mimansa Verma, Quartz, 23 Mar. 2022
  • Yet, even with hopes of changing the world receding in the last decades of the twentieth century, a less confident dissidence often remained, ready to be ignited or shared with younger generations, if and when opportunities arose.
    — Longreads, 21 Jan. 2017
  • Listeners determined to uncover evidence of Shostakovich’s musical dissidence will find it in the Ninth Symphony.
    — Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Mar. 2022
  • In an unprecedented show of dissidence against their government, many of these protests were heard openly chanting for Chinese President Xi Jinping to step down as the country's leader.
    — Justin Klawans, The Week, 27 Nov. 2022
  • At the heart of the issue is a question of power, and not just Guzmán’s policymaking power, but Alberto’s capacity to lead his administration in the face of dissidence from within.
    — Agustino Fontevecchia, Forbes, 28 June 2021

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