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The Alien and Sedition Acts were attempts to silence early political dissent in America.dissent = disagreement
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The Supreme Court was unanimous except for one dissenting opinion.dissenting = disagreeing
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So instead of acknowledging applause, I stand there unmoving while they take part in the boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence. Which says we do not agree. We do not condone. All of this is wrong. (source)dissent = disagreement (in this case, with official beliefs)
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"All those reports are supposed to stir up dissension against Abnegation," he says, (source)dissension = conflict
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Dumbledore made a small noise of dissent through his long, crooked nose. (source)dissent = disagreement
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...so the process was more of a three- or four-hour ritual than an actual election. Of course, last-minute dissension in the ranks could prolong the ceremony through dawn... (source)
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Pst, pst, like a cat luring a mouse from its hole, they goad each other into quarrels and dissent. (source)dissent = disagreement
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Now, there's a world full of dissension about this, but the vast majority seem to think that there are some rules that have to be followed. (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-sion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in admission from admit, discussion from discuss, and invasion from invade.
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There is, however, a small dissenting faction. (source)dissenting = disagreeing
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Macedon saw its progress but internal dissensions hindered her from stopping it.† (source)
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a private soldier ... who wandered freely into staff meetings and joined or dissented in the decisions of general officers. (source)dissented = disagreed
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There was a chorus of agreement with only one dissentient voice. (source)dissentient = disagreeing
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For she had undergone her own educating at a time of nerves, blandness and retreat among not only her fellow students but also most of the visible structure around and ahead of them, this having been a national reflex to certain pathologies in high places only death had had the power to cure, and this Berkeley was like no somnolent Siwash out of her own past at all, but more akin to those Far Eastern or Latin American universities you read about, those autonomous culture media where the most beloved of folklores may be brought into doubt, cataclysmic of dissents voiced, suicidal of commitments chosen—the sort that bring governments down.† (source)dissents = disagrees
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By holy Paul, they love his grace but lightly That fill his ears with such dissentious rumours. (source)dissentious = disagreeing
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She didn't need those things breeding dissent with their predictions. (source)dissent = disagreement (in this case, with official beliefs)
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"I will tolerate no dissension up there." (source)dissension = disagreement
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