as in insurgent
taking part in a rebellion
vowed that he would someday see the mutinous crew hang
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The shoot went more than a hundred days over schedule, and the crew nearly turned mutinous.
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Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
The first among the recent coups was in Mali, where mutinous soldiers seized power in 2020 and again in 2021, when a military officer ousted the original coup leader.
—Rachel Chason, Washington Post, 28 Jan. 2024
Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the violent Wagner mercenary group who in June led his fighters on an aborted mutinous march to Moscow, likely died in a jet crash in Russia on Wednesday with nine others, Russia's Federal Agency for Air Transport said.
—Henry Austin, NBC News, 23 Aug. 2023
After mutinous soldiers seized power in Niger, West African countries froze financial transactions, closed their borders with Niger and cut off most of its electricity supply in an effort to pressure the generals into restoring constitutional order.
—Elian Peltier, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2023
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Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
The first among the recent coups was in Mali, where mutinous soldiers seized power in 2020 and again in 2021, when a military officer ousted the original coup leader.
—Rachel Chason, Washington Post, 28 Jan. 2024
Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the violent Wagner mercenary group who in June led his fighters on an aborted mutinous march to Moscow, likely died in a jet crash in Russia on Wednesday with nine others, Russia's Federal Agency for Air Transport said.
—Henry Austin, NBC News, 23 Aug. 2023
After mutinous soldiers seized power in Niger, West African countries froze financial transactions, closed their borders with Niger and cut off most of its electricity supply in an effort to pressure the generals into restoring constitutional order.
—Elian Peltier, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2023
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“Mutinous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mutinous. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.
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