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Recent Examples of deserter Another grievance that defectors and deserters commonly cited was declining salaries. Mara R. Revkin, Foreign Affairs, 1 May 2016 According to some reports, defectors and deserters have been burned or frozen to death in Iraq. Mara R. Revkin, Foreign Affairs, 1 May 2016 Go way back to President Lincoln, who made hard decisions himself about deserters from the Army, things like that. CBS News, 15 Dec. 2024 Abraham Lincoln: Issued clemency to thousands of individuals, including Confederate deserters, during the Civil War. Marley Malenfant, Austin American-Statesman, 12 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for deserter
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Noun
  • Questioning Tulsi Gabbard about her appointment as the director of National Intelligence, Republican senators begged her to agree with them that Edward Snowden was a traitor for leaking sensitive documents and then fleeing to Moscow.
    David D. Kirkpatrick, New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2025
  • Continue reading … 'CLOSER TO RUSSIA' – Dem fires back after Elon Musk doubles down on 'traitor' accusation.
    FOXNews.com, FOXNews.com, 28 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Parnell, the Pentagon spokesperson, said the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman, which has been carrying out strikes on Houthi rebels in Yemen, will stay in the region through this month, though its deployment there was scheduled to have ended at the end of March.
    Haley Britzky, CNN Money, 2 Apr. 2025
  • The rebels have loosely defined what constitutes an Israeli ship, meaning many vessels could be targeted.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 2 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Sports Illustrated even called for UM to disband what was seen then as a renegade football program led by a coach playing by his own rules.
    Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 5 Mar. 2025
  • Some have held him up as a renegade, choosing freedom over the comforts of domestic life.
    Rick Rojas, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2025

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