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• How can you know everything about everything, if you won't consider any dissent?From the entry consider
• Seeds of dissent were budding among the recruits.From the entry bud
• They ruthlessly suppressed any dissent for fear that it would inspire the citizens to take some sort of collective action against the government.From the entry collective action
• History shows that attempts to suppress dissent through indiscriminate repression have precisely the opposite effect.2023 January 19, Stephen Reicher, “More conflict, more violence: that’s the future if the UK’s new anti-protest law is passed”, in The…. From the entry radicalise
• That’s no small number in a country where Putin brooks little dissent.2022 February 25, Thomas L. Friedman, “We Have Never Been Here Before”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry brook
• The majority of the pages in the dissent are directed at an opinion no longer in existence.2021 July 14, Beverly B. Martin, “Drew Adams v. School Board of St. Johns County, Florida”, in Appeals from the United States District…. From the entry shadowbox
• Indeed much of the dissent continues to shadowbox with an opinion we never wrote.2021 July 14, Beverly B. Martin, “Drew Adams v. School Board of St. Johns County, Florida”, in Appeals from the United States District…. From the entry shadowbox
• Kane did more than anyone to provoke the crowd’s dissent with his overhit passes and misdirected shots.2016 June 27, Daniel Taylor, “England humiliated as Iceland knock them out of Euro 2016”, in The Guardian, London. From the entry overhit
• The scene, captured by foreign journalists, has become one the most powerful symbols of dissent in China.2015 September 3, Patrick Boehler, “China’s Military Parade Celebrates World War II Victory”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry Chang'an Avenue
• Dissent or satire — especially where these matters were concerned — was unthinkable.2008, Toby Creswell, Notorious Australians, unnumbered page. From the entry ladies' lounge
• The fact that nudity was a cultural taboo meant that it could provide a vehicle for dissent.1991, Timothy Miller, The hippies and American values, University of Tennessee Press, →ISBN, page 61. From the entry nude-in
• Curran, who opposes the papal ban on contraception, contends theologians may legitimately dissent from noninfallible teachings.1988 May 6, Robert McClory, “The Divine Right”, in Chicago Reader, archived from the original on 25 Oct 2020. From the entry noninfallible
• Graham fell in with the scheme without a murmur of dubiety or dissent.1906, David Graham Phillips, chapter 18, in The Fortune Hunter. From the entry dubiety
• Suppressing dissent dooms the society to sclerosis, decline and collapse.2019 December 6, Charles Hugh Smith, Suppressing Dissent Guarantees Disorder and Collapse. From the entry sclerosis
• "The criminal cases against Thanathorn show the military government's contempt for the rights to freedom of expression and peaceful dissent.2019 April 6, Caleb Quinley, “Thailand: Anti-military party leader faces sedition charges”, in Al Jazeera, Doha: Al Jazeera, retrieved 06…. From the entry out of thin air
• I won’t promote the silencing of dissent through verbal muscularity.2018 October 13, Judith Taylor, “I’m a woman who imitated the swagger of an entitled white male — and it got results”, in The Star. From the entry muscularity
• Instead, China's authoritarian leader has waged war on dissent with unexpected ferocity, throwing some opponents in jail and forcing others overseas.2017 October 14, Tom Phillips, “Chairman Xi crushes dissent but poor believe he's making China great”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The…. From the entry calamitous
• He’d for the most part refrained from any dramatic concurrences or dissents—as though keeping his powder dry for Burwell v.2014 July 1, Noah Feldman, “Alito's Day in Court”, in BloombergView, archived from the original on 25 Aug 2014. From the entry keep one's powder dry
• Judges signal this form of dissensus by writing separate opinions that take the form of a dissent or concurrence.2006, Virginia A. Hettinger, Stefanie A. Lindquist, Wendy L. Martinek, “Horizontal and Vertical Dissensus”, in Judging on a Collegial…. From the entry dissensus
• It does not refer to all forms of dissent.2005 May 7, nitin_pa...@hotmail.com, “Pat Robertson”, in soc.politics (Usenet), retrieved 18 May 2022. From the entry fearmonging
• I have already asserted since I first entered this group that I am here to argue in dissent.2004 August 31, A Planet Visitor, “Earl Evleth: Stalker & Hypocrite”, in alt.activism.death-penalty (Usenet), archived from the original…. From the entry kissy-kissy
• War inspired mob violence and pressure for suppressing dissent.1984, Mauricio Mazón, “Servicemen and Zoot-Suiters”, in The Zoot-Suit Riots: The Psychology of Symbolic Annihilation, Austin, Tex.…. From the entry darkside
• It was intellectual and spiritual dissent and concerned the beliefs of Christianity, not the morals of its adherents.1968, History of Western Civilization, edited by Heyes, Baldwin & Cole, p.47. Macmillan. Library of Congress 67–13596. From the entry heresy
• The byzantine, meandering processes of Icann are engineered in a way that avoids any dissent surfacing, all under the reassuring guise of consensus.2014 July 1, Julia Powles, “The byzantine, meandering discussion on the future of the internet”, in The Guardian. From the entry byzantine
• Increasing numbers of circuit judges are writing dissents from, and concurrences in, orders denying rehearing en banc—colloquially known as dissentals and concurrals.2012, Alex Kozinski, James Burnham, “I Say Dissental, You Say Concurral”, in The Yale Law Journal Online. From the entry dissental
• In the case of enlargement (an executive decision rather than a matter of 'legislation') the EP is called upon only to assent or dissent.2008, Elizabeth E. Bomberg, John Peterson, Alexander C-G. Stubb, The European Union: How Does it Work?, →ISBN, page 169. From the entry executive decision
• Courageously (given Ranger's status in Mugabe's Zimbabwe, and his status as a silverback in North Atlantic Academe), Kriger dissents from their arguments.2001, Peter Burke, New Perspectives on Historical Writing, page 145. From the entry silverback
• According to Shaun McVeigh, the persona of the jurisprudent 'is presented in terms of dissent from the (major) jurisprudences of rationalist legal traditions and state authority.2022, Christos Marneros, Human Rights After Deleuze: Towards an An-archic Jurisprudence. From the entry jurisprudent
• Mubarak's Egypt has resorted to the traditional blunt instrument against dissent in a crisis — cutting off communications altogether — other countries have shown greater sophistication.2011 January 29, Scott Shane, “Spotlight Again Falls on Web Tools and Change”, in New York Times, retrieved 12 Jun 2011. From the entry blunt instrument
• In Poland, a so-called anti-Zionist urge proved that the Stalinist gerontocrats would stoop even to Hitlerite tactics to repress dissent and prolong their sterile and boring hold on power.2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic, published 2011, page 98. From the entry gerontocrat
• He pressed eagerly for Clarendon's commital, and on the refusal of the Lords accused them of mutiny and rebellion, and entered his dissent with "great fury."1911, “Bristol, George Digby, 2nd Earl of”, in Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition. From the entry commital

Meaning of dissent

1. verb To disagree; to withhold assent. Construed with from (or, formerly, to).
2. verb To differ from, especially in opinion, beliefs, etc.
3. verb To be different; to have contrary characteristics.

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How do you use dissent in a sentence?

Dissent is used as a verb and noun. For example: “How can you know everything about everything, if you won't consider any dissent?”

What is a short sentence with dissent?

“Seeds of dissent were budding among the recruits.”

What does dissent mean?

Dissent means to disagree; to withhold assent. Construed with from (or, formerly, to).