How to Use dissidence in a Sentence

dissidence

noun

• 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
• But Li emphasizes that this is not a sign of dissidence.
  — Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 9 May 2022
• 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
• 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
• Kanter has drawn the ire of the Turkish government for his political dissidence throughout his eight-year NBA career.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 4 Oct. 2019
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Amidst ongoing anger and mass protests from Iranians over the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, protesters called for merchants to begin striking on Monday as a further sign of dissidence toward the ruling regime.
  — Justin Klawans, The Week, 4 Dec. 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
• 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
• 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
• During the English civil war of the 1640s, and the Protestant dictatorship that followed, the authorities seem to have lost all control of grassroots religious life, allowing creative dissidence to flourish.
  — The Economist, 17 Dec. 2019
• Ossandon notes that there are also more docs exploring gender dissidence and identity.
  — Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 17 May 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
• 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
• Ng chooses to contrast oppression and violence with poetic dissidence, which is woven throughout the narrative.
  — Jacqui Palumbo, CNN, 5 Oct. 2022
• The open dissidence of Saar has had a reverberating effect on black female artists in particular, including Saar’s daughter, the sculptor and installation artist Alison Saar, a formidable creator in her own right.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2019
• Number two is social order and suppressing any political dissidence.
  — Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2019
• In fact, most such spies agreed to cooperate based on ideological dissidence with their illegitimate governments.
  — Douglas London, CNN, 31 Mar. 2022

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024