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the mutineers were captured after they turned to piracy on the open seas
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Or an historian of Polynesian culture giving a lecture about tattooing, or the time Captain Bligh stopped on the atoll to look for the mutineer Fletcher Christian.
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Antonia Quirke, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Jan. 2026
Language purists like to remind anyone who will listen that decimation actually means the slaughter of one in ten people, and was the military punishment wielded by the Roman army against deserters and mutineers.
—Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
Few among the bureaucratic, business, and even military elites denounced the mutineers, exposing limited support for Putin.
—Andrei Yakovlev, Foreign Affairs, 16 May 2025
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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Antonia Quirke, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Jan. 2026
Language purists like to remind anyone who will listen that decimation actually means the slaughter of one in ten people, and was the military punishment wielded by the Roman army against deserters and mutineers.
—Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
Few among the bureaucratic, business, and even military elites denounced the mutineers, exposing limited support for Putin.
—Andrei Yakovlev, Foreign Affairs, 16 May 2025
He’s been with them since the beginning, proving himself as a loyal friend and a valuable mutineer.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 7 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for mutineer
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“Mutineer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mutineer. Accessed 8 Feb. 2026.
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mutineer
noun
mu·ti·neer
ˌmyüt-ᵊn-ˈi(ə)r 
: a person who is guilty of mutiny
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