oppositionist

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Recent Examples of oppositionist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) is a Sunni Islamist umbrella group of oppositionist forces with ideological and organizational roots in al-Qaeda. Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024 Within Russia, the oppositionists’ challenges are far greater. Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 18 Sep. 2024 Russian oppositionists in exile face nearly insurmountable challenges. Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 18 Sep. 2024 Already, these fears have led Ukrainian oppositionist democrats, European intellectuals, and prominent Western analysts to call on the EU to put the integration process on hold. Rajan Menon, Foreign Affairs, 11 Oct. 2011 Characteristically, Navalny tried to buck up his fellow oppositionists. The Editors, National Review, 16 Feb. 2024 However, several prisoners from his ward have previously been treated for tuberculosis, the oppositionist said. Fox News, 7 Apr. 2021 Trump canceled Obama’s Title 50 program that armed Syrian oppositionists in July 2017. Charles Glass, Harper's magazine, 10 Feb. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for oppositionist
Noun
  • On the battlefield, the nobles’ cavalry and superior artillery brutally cut down the rebels.
    Michael Bruening, The Conversation, 25 Feb. 2025
  • The rebels on Friday also claimed to have seized a second airport in the region, in the town of Kavumu outside Bukavu.
    JUSTIN KABUMBA, arkansasonline.com, 16 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • In recent years, the PKK has been limited to isolated attacks inside Turkey as the Turkish military, backed by armed drones, has pushed PKK insurgents increasingly across the mountainous border into Iraq.
    Democrat-Gazette staff from wire reports, arkansasonline.com, 2 Mar. 2025
  • Elected by surprise in 2018, Ocasio-Cortez was a progressive insurgent, a democratic socialist, a frequent critic of her own party, and a social media sensation.
    Steve Inskeep, NPR, 28 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • In the 1940s and ’50s, room-sized mainframe computers relied on thousands of vacuum tubes, resisters, capacitors and more.
    Gerui Wang, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Collaborators often became resisters, and vice versa.
    Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • And many revolutionists think that new equipment has changed the patterns of advance and retreat in Ukraine relative to historical experience.
    Stephen Biddle, Foreign Affairs, 10 Aug. 2023
  • As the head of China’s Nationalist government, Chiang and his party were trying to establish control in a nation divided among revolutionists, nationalists, Indigenous warlords, and a developing communist army and government.
    Susan Tate Ankeny, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Apr. 2024
Noun
  • Others on board included modernist Russian poet and a Trotskyite anarchist Victor Serge, Martinican poet and a founder of the anticolonialism Négritude movement Aimé Césaire, Cuban painter Wifredo Lam; influential Marxist psychiatrist and Pan-Africanist Frantz Fanon, along with fascinating others.
    Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2025
  • And Birmingham, the son of a police officer and a mom who did social work, admit to being something of an anarchist.
    Lisa Kennedy, Variety, 3 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Black bookstores have long been sanctuaries — nurturing Black thought, incubating ideas and cultivating the next generation of readers, writers and revolutionaries.
    Jameelah Nasheed, Essence, 4 Mar. 2025
  • Football fans, the ones who will pay tens of thousands of dollars to go to a game or bet hundreds of dollars on the flip of a coin, tend not to be art lovers or revolutionaries.
    Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • He’s been with them since the beginning, proving himself as a loyal friend and a valuable mutineer.
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 7 Feb. 2025
  • The mutineers requested political asylum but instead were imprisoned by the Cambodian government.
    Roberto Loiederman, Baltimore Sun, 11 Jan. 2025

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“Oppositionist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oppositionist. Accessed 10 Mar. 2025.

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