as in revolts
open fighting against authority (as one's own government)
the uprising was quickly and brutally suppressed
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Recent Examples of uprisings
While at the Lumiere Festival in Lyon where he’s being honored with a career tribute, Michael Mann reflected on his time in Paris documenting the student uprisings of 1968 for NBC.
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Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 17 Oct. 2025
In the long, hot summer of 1967, uprisings broke out across more than 150 cities after years of police abuse, segregation, and neglect.
—Josiah Bates, Time, 14 Oct. 2025
The uprisings moved through the region as the Arab Spring ignited, and tens of millions of frustrated residents went online to coordinate.
—Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
More multicasts of our sonic uprisings to compete with America's myopic narrowcasting.
—Rodney Carmichael, NPR, 1 Oct. 2025
This summer alone has seen youth uprisings in Nepal, Angola, and Indonesia, to say nothing of ongoing youth mobilization worldwide for a free Palestine.
—Heather Hunter, The Washington Examiner, 25 Sep. 2025
The persecution worsened more than a decade ago during uprisings that remade the Middle East by toppling dictators — including Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak — but in some places spiraled into civil war.
—Hannah Allam, ProPublica, 10 Sep. 2025
The riot in Milwaukee, one of scores of uprisings around the United States during the summer of 1967, triggered a citywide lockdown, brought the National Guard — and laid bare the city's racial divide.
—Chris Foran, jsonline.com, 3 Sep. 2025
The Dalai Lama has been the key figure quelling violence when grassroots dissatisfaction has escalated into episodic uprisings in Tibet.
—Tenzin Dorjee, Foreign Affairs, 1 Sep. 2025
Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 17 Oct. 2025
In the long, hot summer of 1967, uprisings broke out across more than 150 cities after years of police abuse, segregation, and neglect.
—Josiah Bates, Time, 14 Oct. 2025
The uprisings moved through the region as the Arab Spring ignited, and tens of millions of frustrated residents went online to coordinate.
—Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
More multicasts of our sonic uprisings to compete with America's myopic narrowcasting.
—Rodney Carmichael, NPR, 1 Oct. 2025
This summer alone has seen youth uprisings in Nepal, Angola, and Indonesia, to say nothing of ongoing youth mobilization worldwide for a free Palestine.
—Heather Hunter, The Washington Examiner, 25 Sep. 2025
The persecution worsened more than a decade ago during uprisings that remade the Middle East by toppling dictators — including Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak — but in some places spiraled into civil war.
—Hannah Allam, ProPublica, 10 Sep. 2025
The riot in Milwaukee, one of scores of uprisings around the United States during the summer of 1967, triggered a citywide lockdown, brought the National Guard — and laid bare the city's racial divide.
—Chris Foran, jsonline.com, 3 Sep. 2025
The Dalai Lama has been the key figure quelling violence when grassroots dissatisfaction has escalated into episodic uprisings in Tibet.
—Tenzin Dorjee, Foreign Affairs, 1 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for uprisings
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The Onondagas support plans announced by the mayor of Syracuse in 2020 to remove the statue of Columbus, an Italian explorer who helped the Spanish establish a colonial foothold in the Caribbean and later suppressed revolts by Indigenous people.—
Eva Roytburg,
Fortune,
11 Oct. 2025
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Peasant revolts have been a thing right alongside revolutionary history the entire time.—
Nikki McCann Ramirez,
Rolling Stone,
22 Sep. 2025
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The former French colony in the Indian Ocean off the coast of east Africa is no stranger to rebellions.—
NPR,
NPR,
14 Oct. 2025
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Wars that lasted a hundred years, wars between Lutherans and Catholics and between Christians and Muslims, the siege of Constantinople, Mitteleuropa’s peasant rebellions, the lowland’s revolt against Spain, England’s conquest of Ireland.—
Greg Grandin
September 23,
Literary Hub,
23 Sep. 2025
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The president can also legally invoke the military under the Insurrection Act, which allows troops to be deployed in order to curb insurrections.—
Alison Durkee,
Forbes.com,
11 Aug. 2025
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This includes leader assassination attempts by political opponents or lone wolves or mutinies by disgruntled soldiers who might even march on the presidential palace to demand higher pay, promotions or other policy concessions.—
John Joseph Chin,
The Conversation,
16 Oct. 2025
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“Uprisings.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uprisings. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.
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