How to Use dissident in a Sentence

dissident

adjective
  • Roy’s fall from darling to dissident was swift, and her landing rough.
    — Samanth Subramanian, The New Yorker, 12 June 2019
  • He had been involved in dissident circles since his student days, in the nineties.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
  • But the dissident filmmaker isn’t sure what kind of welcome awaits his return.
    — Madison Darbyshire, Bloomberg, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Energy giant Exxon fought hard to fend off the dissident slate.
    — Justin Baer, WSJ, 28 May 2021
  • The list includes members of dissident groups and a journalist.
    — Matthew Lee, The Seattle Times, 11 Dec. 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • Why the arrests of artists such as dissident rapper Maykel Castillo?
    — Tracy Wilkinsonstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2022
  • Yet the movie isn’t merely dissident cinema.
    — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 14 Feb. 2026
  • The city's café culture has made a strong comeback (the communists had closed down the cafés, fearing a dissident breeding ground).
    — Rick Steves, USA TODAY, 28 Nov. 2019
  • At least one speaker at the event reportedly received tens of thousands of dollars from the dissident group.
    — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 10 July 2023
  • Egan Jones recommended a vote for the dissident shareholders and the new board.
    — Erin Arvedlund, Philly.com, 23 May 2018
  • The Teamsters have faced challenges from dissident groups criticizing deals the union has reached.
    — Kelly Yamanouchi, ajc, 10 July 2018
  • At one point the dissident, who asked that his name be withheld for his safety, lost consciousness and had to be taken to the hospital.
    — Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • This time, Turkey’s dissident officers tried to take only some of these steps, and succeeded in none of them.
    — Max Fisher and Amanda Taub, New York Times, 16 July 2016
  • Some now fear a return to the dark days of Abiy’s predecessors, when dissident bloggers were tortured.
    — The Economist, 15 Aug. 2019
  • This is not the first brush with theocratic law for the dissident director, who’s been working steadily out of Iran for two decades.
    — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 27 Nov. 2024
  • Pro-America conservatives should take a great deal of ‘dissident’ content with a few caviar spoons of salt, so to speak.
    — Wilfred Reilly, National Review, 9 July 2025
  • The film follows a reclusive mortician who faces an unusual request from a dissident singer in hiding.
    — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 20 Aug. 2025
  • On his first day, Roizman hung a portrait of dissident poet Josef Brodsky.
    — Nataliya Vasilyeva, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Mar. 2018
  • 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
  • Among the many imprisoned was dissident rapper Toomaj Salehi, who over the course of three years spent more time behind bars than out of them.
    — Lily Moayeri, Rolling Stone, 3 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Under the new agreement, the dissident group, founded in 2011, will dissolve and join the mainline Democrats.
    — Corinne Ramey, WSJ, 4 Apr. 2018

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