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as in revolt
open fighting against authority (as one's own government)
the revolution by which the American colonies gained their independence from Great Britain necessitated going up against the world's most powerful army
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Recent Examples of revolution
At the dawn of the scientific revolution, Galileo was tried by the Inquisition for arguing that the Earth moves around the Sun.
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Ferric C. Fang, Baltimore Sun, 23 Mar. 2025
Masucci credits Netflix’s smash German sci-fi thriller Dark, which along with Squid Game, Lupin and Money Heist led a non-English-language revolution, as catapulting his career to the next level.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 23 Mar. 2025
The filmmakers make easy work of granting them the agency to see their stories through, bucking a backdrop of ignorance to stand up to forces attempting to quiet the voices of impending revolution.
—Holly Jones, Variety, 21 Mar. 2025
For fans old and new, the debut is an excuse to revisit Panem's revolution.
—Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2025
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Ferric C. Fang, Baltimore Sun, 23 Mar. 2025
Masucci credits Netflix’s smash German sci-fi thriller Dark, which along with Squid Game, Lupin and Money Heist led a non-English-language revolution, as catapulting his career to the next level.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 23 Mar. 2025
The filmmakers make easy work of granting them the agency to see their stories through, bucking a backdrop of ignorance to stand up to forces attempting to quiet the voices of impending revolution.
—Holly Jones, Variety, 21 Mar. 2025
For fans old and new, the debut is an excuse to revisit Panem's revolution.
—Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for revolution
Noun
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Gerrit Cole's Tommy John surgery created one more opening in the rotation.—
Ron Estes,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Mar. 2025
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That shoulder meant the Twins spent the rest of the season trotting out three rookies in the rotation.—
Betsy Helfand,
Twin Cities,
28 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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Acevedo was impressed with Gilliland’s command of the curve.—
Paul Johnson,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Mar. 2025
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More and more companies are ahead of the curve on this type of reporting, disclosing non-financial data in their annual reports alongside their revenue and profit figures.—
David Morel,
Forbes.com,
27 Mar. 2025
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Karla Jay remembers joining the second night of street protests during the 1969 Stonewall uprising in New York City.—
Orion Rummler,
Them,
17 Mar. 2025
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Egypt’s military governments have long been deeply distrustful of Islamist movements, notably the homegrown Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, and Sisi himself came to power in a military coup against a Muslim Brotherhood president who was elected after the uprising of 2011.—
Lisa Anderson,
Foreign Affairs,
14 Mar. 2025
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Give these new tunes a spin and vote for your favorite new Latin music release below.—
Griselda Flores,
Billboard,
28 Mar. 2025
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No matter the temperature outside, heated yoga, Pilates or spin classes are drawing in those eager to sweat it out.—
Julianna Bragg,
CNN Money,
27 Mar. 2025
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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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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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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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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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“Revolution.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/revolution. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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