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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.
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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
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
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In The Rise of Skywalker, the rebels manage to amass an army and take the fight to the evil Emperor Palpatine, who threatened to take over the galaxy with the biggest military force ever seen.Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025
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Their nations have also tried to coordinate on policies toward Syria, where rebels recently toppled Bashar al-Assad, the longtime dictator.Edward Wong, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2025
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Between the old and the new guard, the Washington establishment and disruptive insurgents, and the two sides in the Israel-Palestinian conflict.Scott Wong, NBC news, 31 Dec. 2024
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Syria Civil War While Assad's downfall marked perhaps the most significant turn in Syria's civil war that first erupted from clashes between government forces and an array of insurgents and jihadis in 2011, the rebel victory has brought with it new potential risks.Tom O'Connor, Newsweek, 28 Dec. 2024
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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
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As one of his first acts upon taking office, President Carter pardoned all Vietnam War draft resisters.Vogue, Vogue, 29 Dec. 2024
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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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Granted, such dialogue would be much harder with MAGA or leftist crazies, racists, anarchists, misogynists or white supremacists.Mike Mcgrew, Baltimore Sun, 22 Dec. 2024
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Their dilemmas evoke our disregard of the vacancy in Antifa anarchists and our encouragement of gender dysphoria.Armond White, National Review, 25 Sep. 2024
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What some folks online had imagined as a left-leaning anti-capitalist revolutionary turned out to be someone with beliefs as complicated and perhaps as conflicting as just about anyone else online.Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 10 Dec. 2024
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In this light, an advocate for peaceful democratic change, who kept vigil in Tiananmen Square to protect students from oncoming tanks, had been similar to violent revolutionaries.Chang Che, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2024
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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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The two who came closest to challenging him—the opposition leader Alexei Navalny and the mutineer Yevgeny Prigozhin—are now dead.Peter Schroeder, Foreign Affairs, 3 Sep. 2024
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