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as in revolt
open fighting against authority (as one's own government)
the rebellion would have failed if not for the aid sent by other countries
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as in defiance
refusal to obey
the period of rebellion that teenagers typically go through
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Recent Examples of rebellion
Over eight tracks, the album explores love, excess, and emotional instability while tapping into online rebellion.
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Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 14 Feb. 2025
Searching for medicine, water, and food or simply trying to avoid bombs, few could think about rebellion.
—Nataliya Gumenyuk, Foreign Affairs, 12 Feb. 2025
Pinned with the blame for Mark, Helly, Dylan, and Irving’s rebellion, she’s formally benched by Helena Eagan, a.k.a.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 5 Feb. 2025
Flowy gowns, and darker hues of usually vibrant shades are used possibly to convey the love, despair, rebellion, and individualism the designer mentioned in his show notes.
—Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 13 Feb. 2025
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Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 14 Feb. 2025
Searching for medicine, water, and food or simply trying to avoid bombs, few could think about rebellion.
—Nataliya Gumenyuk, Foreign Affairs, 12 Feb. 2025
Pinned with the blame for Mark, Helly, Dylan, and Irving’s rebellion, she’s formally benched by Helena Eagan, a.k.a.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 5 Feb. 2025
Flowy gowns, and darker hues of usually vibrant shades are used possibly to convey the love, despair, rebellion, and individualism the designer mentioned in his show notes.
—Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 13 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rebellion
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Go deeper: Mike Johnson struggles to contain a GOP budget revolt Editor's note: This is a developing story.—
Andrew Solender,
Axios,
26 Feb. 2025
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Ray, although in his forties, was at one with youth in revolt.—
Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
26 Feb. 2025
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Atul Gawande, former Assistant Administrator for Global Health at USAID, wrote on X that 5,800 USAID contracts have been terminated in defiance of the courts.—
Joshua P. Cohen,
Forbes,
4 Mar. 2025
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The strange particulars of his passing remain a mystery thus far, but Hackman’s life was lived in quiet defiance of Hollywood fame and the strictures of celebrity.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
27 Feb. 2025
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McKinley took a similar approach in dealing with Spain during its brutal effort to suppress an insurrection in Cuba against Spanish imperial rule.—
Robert W. Merry,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
7 Mar. 2025
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His clemency toward those convicted of crimes related to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection – including seditious conspiracy and assaults on police officers – was different in key ways from the two previous efforts, by Andrew Johnson in 1868 and Ulysses S. Grant in 1873.—
David Cason,
The Conversation,
7 Mar. 2025
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Early in the uprising, Masri's home in Homs was known a safe haven.—
Jawad Rizkallah,
NPR,
5 Mar. 2025
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Most of them were imprisoned during the first and second intifadas, uprisings by Palestinians against Israel’s military occupation of the West Bank.—
Zeena Saifi,
CNN,
4 Mar. 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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Business leaders face challenges, including the frantic need for speedy decision-making, unexpected market shifts, geopolitical volatility, internal mutinies, power plays and harrowing decisions that can hurt the livelihood of their teams by cutting jobs.—
Carlo Tortora Brayda,
Forbes,
6 Mar. 2025
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Pardons have sometimes been used in the past — in some cases wisely, in others not — to turn the page on divisive episodes of civil disorder and disobedience.—
The Editors,
National Review,
22 Jan. 2025
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That kind of aspirational-prediction dynamic is informing Trump’s disobedience of congressional statutes that limit his control over the executive branch.—
Jeannie Suk Gersen,
The New Yorker,
13 Feb. 2025
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With that context, Zubac is a poster child for keeping the apology as loud as the disrespect.—
Shane Young,
Forbes,
28 Feb. 2025
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No disrespect to Sir Paul McCartney, but Dwayne Carter Jr. (a.k.a. Lil Wayne) clearly had the superior musical medley of the night.—
Andy Hoglund,
EW.com,
17 Feb. 2025
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“Rebellion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rebellion. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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