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opposing
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The largest labor union for city workers, the Municipal Employees Association, has spent more than $50,000 on mailers supporting her and opposing Bailey.—
David Garrick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
27 May 2026 -
But opposing him is Stagg, a Scottish, stick-in-the-mud academic (which is saying a lot by most weather men’s personality standards), who insists on making the team’s joint recommendation exclusively using the current observational data available to Allied forces.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
26 May 2026
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“Dissenting (to).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dissenting%20%28to%29. Accessed 28 May. 2026.
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