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as in protester
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as in quibbler
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Recent Examples of objector
The process involves a series of hearings in which election judges review signatures one-by-one, and typically requires the objector and the candidate to hire an attorney.
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Kate Armanini,
Chicago Tribune,
20 June 2026
After a two-year National Service stint as a hospital orderly (thanks to his own conscientious-objector status), Hockney landed at the Royal College of Art, in London, in the fall of 1959.
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Mark Rozzo,
Vanity Fair,
12 June 2026
The most explicit objector was Vance, who has been consistently opposed to foreign adventurism, and to this Iran war in particular.
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Andreas Kluth,
Mercury News,
18 Apr. 2026
One objector is Katie Brydon, a 25-year resident of Northglenn and a licensed addiction counselor.
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John Aguilar,
Denver Post,
22 Nov. 2025
There are unanswered overtures from the choir’s pianist Horner (Robert Emms), a soft, vulnerable young man whose conscientious-objector status renders him a fellow outsider.
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Guy Lodge,
Variety,
19 Oct. 2025
Kate Armanini,
Chicago Tribune,
20 June 2026
After a two-year National Service stint as a hospital orderly (thanks to his own conscientious-objector status), Hockney landed at the Royal College of Art, in London, in the fall of 1959.
—
Mark Rozzo,
Vanity Fair,
12 June 2026
The most explicit objector was Vance, who has been consistently opposed to foreign adventurism, and to this Iran war in particular.
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Andreas Kluth,
Mercury News,
18 Apr. 2026
One objector is Katie Brydon, a 25-year resident of Northglenn and a licensed addiction counselor.
—
John Aguilar,
Denver Post,
22 Nov. 2025
There are unanswered overtures from the choir’s pianist Horner (Robert Emms), a soft, vulnerable young man whose conscientious-objector status renders him a fellow outsider.
—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
19 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for objector
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In late May, a video spread across Albanian social media of private security guards dragging a protester across the beach at the wetlands.
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An anti-Israel protester who pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the death of a pro-Israel demonstrator in California was sentenced to one year in county jail this week.
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Your relentless faultfinder—everybody has one—is quick to judge, minimize your accomplishments or demote you to an underdog.
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Stream-access proponents took a similar approach in 2010, after a landowner on the Taylor River strung cables from bank to bank to keep a rafting company from floating down.
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There isn't time for proponents to get a new measure on this year's ballot and state law requires any measures brought in odd years be limited to questions related to the Taxpayer Bill of Rights (TABOR).
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Alas, nitpickers can point to some moves in which Atlanta went backward.
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Maybe that’s why, compared with some other kinds of nitpickers, pop critics can seem especially extraneous.
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Which is why this opinion piece speculates that the spending effect of growth in the form of high demand for all things Swift and World Cup is a relative growth somnolent as opposed to an instigator.
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The parents, arguably the film’s first instigators, operate based off fear of their children’s sexuality.
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Frank was trying to set realistic expectations for the season, but made comments that were interpreted as defeatist.
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Hegseth largely declined to provide specifics, instead denouncing critics as defeatists, questioning their patriotism and insisting the mission had broad public support.
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An anti-Israel protester who pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the death of a pro-Israel demonstrator in California was sentenced to one year in county jail this week.
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In a new video, the pilot showed how he was allowed hands-on time with a simulator for the company’s XB-1 demonstrator aircraft and its planned Overture passenger jet.
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However, that’s looking at it from the pessimist’s point of view.
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“Objector.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/objector. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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