Sample Sentences for
dissent
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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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    Should I utter so much as a word of dissent, I am confident they would label me a communist anarchist, and then even Andreas's influence would not save me from the dungeons.  (source)
    dissent = disagreement
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    It [the strike] lasted one shift, the men creeping to work the next day after Mr. Dubonnet told them to get their butts back down in the mine, but Pooky had gotten a whiff of power and was now muttering dissent on the Big Store steps.  (source)
    dissent = opinions in disagreement
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    He felt her shoulders give a wriggle of dissent.  (source)
    dissent = disagreement
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    "All those reports are supposed to stir up dissension against Abnegation," he says,  (source)
    dissension = conflict
    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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    Dissensions arose in the parish.†  (source)
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    but I dissented:  (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)
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    By holy Paul, they love his grace but lightly That fill his ears with such dissentious rumours.  (source)
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    Mark felt a strange little wind of dissent which seemed to whisper in the firs, to precede him, to follow him wherever he went.  (source)
    dissent = disagreement
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    "I will tolerate no dissension up there."  (source)
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