dissent

In a sentence

Six example sentences with dissent, each labelled with its topic.

• Her dissent ran longer than the ruling itself and set out a reading that lower courts quietly began citing.

  Law

• A single dissent can outlive the decision it argued against, supplying language that later legislators borrow word for word.

  Politics

• Justice Harlan's 1896 dissent stood alone for decades before the reasoning behind it became settled law across the country.

  History

• The dissent in the antitrust case argued that the majority had defined the market far too narrowly.

  Economics

• Software patent lawyers still quote the dissent from that ruling, which warned that abstract code should not be patentable.

  Technology

• The merger was approved, but the dissent worried that two firms would now control most of the region's supply.

  Business

Found in these word lists

Each source is a published word list that contains dissent. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

More GMAT words

• glacial
• retiring
• ancestry
• discord
• adversity
• aspiration
• frugal
• stigma
• dispatch
• abyss
• precursor
• activism