as in insurrection
open fighting against authority (as one's own government)
there always seems to be insurgency of some type in that troubled country
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Recent Examples of insurgency
His 1984 Dune adapts Frank Herbert’s book about a messiah from another world whose family is decimated and who is thought lost and dead but is reborn as the leader of a guerilla insurgency on a desert planet after ingesting spice that activates mind-expanding, reality-flouting superpowers.
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Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2025
An evolving insurgency Tuesday’s kidnapping is an audacious moment for a separatist insurgency who seeks greater political autonomy and economic development in the strategically important and mineral-rich mountainous region.
—Sophia Saifi, CNN, 12 Mar. 2025
Pakistan and Afghanistan have accused each other of supporting antigovernment insurgencies in each other’s countries.
—Mushtaq Yusufzai, NBC News, 12 Mar. 2025
Also, insurgencies on either side of the Iran-Pakistan border have frustrated both countries.
—Abdul Sattar and Munir Ahmed, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2025
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Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2025
An evolving insurgency Tuesday’s kidnapping is an audacious moment for a separatist insurgency who seeks greater political autonomy and economic development in the strategically important and mineral-rich mountainous region.
—Sophia Saifi, CNN, 12 Mar. 2025
Pakistan and Afghanistan have accused each other of supporting antigovernment insurgencies in each other’s countries.
—Mushtaq Yusufzai, NBC News, 12 Mar. 2025
Also, insurgencies on either side of the Iran-Pakistan border have frustrated both countries.
—Abdul Sattar and Munir Ahmed, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for insurgency
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More recently, in March 2024, his court issued a unanimous decision blocking state-level efforts to bar Trump from the ballot under the Constitution’s insurrection clause—a ruling that secured Trump’s path to renomination.—
Nik Popli,
TIME,
19 Mar. 2025
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The Department of Justice expunged the January 6th insurrection from its website, and whitehouse.gov took down an explainer page about the Constitution.—
Julian Lucas,
The New Yorker,
14 Mar. 2025
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This change sparked revolt and, eventually, revolution.—
Carla Gardina Pestana,
The Conversation,
20 Mar. 2025
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Carney assumed his role as Liberal leader and prime minister after his predecessor, Justin Trudeau, announced his resignation in January amid a polling slump for the Liberal Party and an internal revolt in his cabinet.—
Max Saltman,
CNN,
20 Mar. 2025
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Otherwise, another popular uprising against him could start.—
Benjamin Weinthal,
FOXNews.com,
30 Mar. 2025
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Historically, Neptune in Aries brings uprisings and unforeseen changes, with ideologies and thoughts that veer from the status quo.—
Lisa Stardust,
Refinery29,
27 Mar. 2025
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As Frederick Douglass noted in a June 1854 newspaper editorial, however, many Americans praised Henry’s phrase and the violent rebellion against British oppression while simultaneously decrying violent resistance to slavery.—
Cassandra Good,
Smithsonian Magazine,
21 Mar. 2025
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Wouldn't that seed resentment and the beginnings of the exact rebellion that takes place?—
Eliana Dockterman,
TIME,
21 Mar. 2025
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This isn’t a flippant analogy; during the Indian mutiny of 1857, British soldiers looted the Taj Mahal, removing rare gems and lapis lazuli.—
Ralph Leonard,
The Atlantic,
4 Feb. 2025
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Death in a hail of bullets has been used to punish mutinies and desertion in armies, as frontier justice in America’s Old West, and as a tool of terror and political repression in the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany.—
Jeffrey Collins,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Mar. 2025
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“Insurgency.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/insurgency. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.
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