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Recent Examples of resister
Perhaps a tad too neatly, the Dahl siblings are accompanied by outliers to serve as witnesses, resisters and accelerants.
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Jesse Green, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2024
Many of these resisters were born after the Islamic Revolution of 1979 and have never known any kind of freedom of speech.
—Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 15 Oct. 2024
Prosecutions, convictions and prison sentences for draft resisters declined sharply in the late 1960s and early 1970s, President Ford’s postwar clemency board concluded in an exhaustive study of the Vietnam War era.
—Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2024
It was later estimated that more than 570,000 sought deferments through deception — the draft dodgers — or openly repudiated the draft — the resisters.
—Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2024
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Jesse Green, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2024
Many of these resisters were born after the Islamic Revolution of 1979 and have never known any kind of freedom of speech.
—Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 15 Oct. 2024
Prosecutions, convictions and prison sentences for draft resisters declined sharply in the late 1960s and early 1970s, President Ford’s postwar clemency board concluded in an exhaustive study of the Vietnam War era.
—Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2024
It was later estimated that more than 570,000 sought deferments through deception — the draft dodgers — or openly repudiated the draft — the resisters.
—Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for resister
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Last week, a humanitarian ceasefire announced by M23 fell apart almost immediately after it was declared, as the rebels swiftly advanced into Nyabibwe.—
Nimi Princewill,
CNN,
12 Feb. 2025
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Trump could also run into problems in Congress where the Republicans have only a slim majority in both the Senate and House, meaning a small number of GOP rebels could disrupt his plans.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
5 Feb. 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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The day was marked by mixed emotions as two of our volunteers, Samuel and Harut, learned that Syrian towns had fallen to insurgents after Bashar al-Assad's exit.—
Anders Fogh Rasmussen,
Newsweek,
4 Feb. 2025
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Alia Shawkat stars as an aspiring actress in a military role-playing facility who falls in love with a soldier (Callum Turner) cast as an insurgent, but their unsimulated emotions threaten to derail the performance.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
31 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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The mutineers requested political asylum but instead were imprisoned by the Cambodian government.—
Roberto Loiederman,
Baltimore Sun,
11 Jan. 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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And Birmingham, the son of a police officer and a mom who did social work, admit to being something of an anarchist.—
Lisa Kennedy,
Variety,
3 Feb. 2025
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Naturally, that makes a hero of the last president to pull it off — even if McKinley did so reluctantly and had more than a few regrets before he was assassinated by an anarchist.—
David E. Sanger,
New York Times,
23 Jan. 2025
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Draping in two ensembles caught attention due to the fabric’s feathery texture in cream and then again in fiery red.—
Kerane Marcellus,
Essence,
11 Feb. 2025
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Oversized feathery furs made way for suiting moments and monochromatic ensembles in burgundy, magenta and red.—
Anika Reed,
USA TODAY,
11 Feb. 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 22 Feb. 2025.
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