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Recent Examples of resister
As a symbol of the Shoah, Auschwitz obscures the courage of Jewish resisters.
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Martin Kimel, Baltimore Sun, 26 Jan. 2025
In the circumstances that Spain’s government has created for itself, even those most averse to change and politically hesitant can become rebels and resisters.
—R. Joseph Huddleston, Foreign Affairs, 6 Oct. 2017
His first official act as president was to pardon Vietnam-era draft resisters, thereby helping bring that sorry chapter in American life to a close.
—Randall Balmer, The Mercury News, 2 Jan. 2025
As one of his first acts upon taking office, President Carter pardoned all Vietnam War draft resisters.
—Vogue, 29 Dec. 2024
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Martin Kimel, Baltimore Sun, 26 Jan. 2025
In the circumstances that Spain’s government has created for itself, even those most averse to change and politically hesitant can become rebels and resisters.
—R. Joseph Huddleston, Foreign Affairs, 6 Oct. 2017
His first official act as president was to pardon Vietnam-era draft resisters, thereby helping bring that sorry chapter in American life to a close.
—Randall Balmer, The Mercury News, 2 Jan. 2025
As one of his first acts upon taking office, President Carter pardoned all Vietnam War draft resisters.
—Vogue, 29 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for resister
Noun
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Its members include Lebanon's Hezbollah, the Islamic Resistance in Iraq and Yemen's Houthi rebels.—
Kim Hjelmgaard,
USA Today,
14 Apr. 2025
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The new campaign of airstrikes started after the rebels threatened to resume targeting Israeli ships over Israel’s blocking of aid entering the Gaza Strip.—
Jon Gambrell,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Apr. 2025
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Evan Turk’s provocative and emotive illustrations, portraits within this portrait, bring swirling movement and feeling to the story of this defier and definer of the times.—
BostonGlobe.com,
BostonGlobe.com,
22 Apr. 2021
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Everybody enjoys being thought of as a scofflaw, or a hell-raiser, or defier of authority, especially if such activity happened in the past.—
Karen Martin,
Arkansas Online,
29 Nov. 2020
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His unit was in western Iraq, at a time of fierce fighting against insurgent forces and car bombs.—
Quil Lawrence,
NPR,
4 Apr. 2025
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From Myanmar comes the story of a student turned insurgent who joined a militant guerilla group set on overthrowing the country’s military junta.—
The Dial,
The Dial,
1 Apr. 2025
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The games remain incomplete, and may in fact remain that way depending on what the Front Man decides to do with Gi-hun and all of the other mutineers.—
Josh Wigler,
The Hollywood Reporter,
2 Jan. 2025
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He’s been with them since the beginning, proving himself as a loyal friend and a valuable mutineer.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
7 Feb. 2025
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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
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Within Russia, the oppositionists’ challenges are far greater.—
Michael Kimmage,
Foreign Affairs,
18 Sep. 2024
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Today’s fascination with destruction and disruption is continuous with the passion of the anarchists.—
Adam Gopnik,
The New Yorker,
24 Feb. 2025
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And the Shelton factory would not have been on even the most inept anarchist’s to-hit list.—
Jody Mamone,
Hartford Courant,
2 Mar. 2025
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The Shanghai stock market closed more than 1% higher, an outlier in a sea of red in Asia on Wednesday.—
John Towfighi, David Goldman and Anna Cooban,
CNN Money,
9 Apr. 2025
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Expect full-bodied, structured reds with flavors of blackcurrant, cedar, and tobacco.—
Emily Price,
Forbes.com,
9 Apr. 2025
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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
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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
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“Resister.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/resister. Accessed 20 Apr. 2025.
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