How to Use junta in a Sentence

junta

noun
  • Aris stands against business with the junta.
    Lorcan Lovett, NPR, 3 May 2026
  • As the rebels gain ground and the junta reels, the country’s future is in doubt.
    Foreign Affairs, 10 June 2024
  • For a time, the junta seemed to be keeping threats to its primacy at bay.
    Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 7 Dec. 2023
  • All three are led by military juntas that came to power through coups.
    Jewel Bright, NPR, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Rebel groups say the junta has conducted airstrikes after the quake.
    Reuters, USA Today, 1 Apr. 2025
  • Myanmar's junta says the death toll has risen to more than 3,100.
    Olivia Le Poidevin, USA Today, 4 Apr. 2025
  • The junta had ruled with a heavy fist and regularly cracked down on its critics.
    Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2019
  • But so far, the officials said, there has been little movement by the junta.
    Rachel Chason, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2023
  • This is a shame, because like the other two juntas, the Templars are great.
    Steven Strom, Ars Technica, 6 Sep. 2017
  • The junta was strongly denounced by rights groups and governments around the world.
    Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 26 July 2022
  • The junta then sacked hundreds of French forces sent to fight extremist groups.
    Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2026
  • Such a scenario could play out regardless of the junta’s survival.
    Avinash Paliwal, Foreign Affairs, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Outside the cemetery, heavy contingents of the junta’s troops stood on alert.
    Alejandro Chacoff, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Buenos Aires quickly lost, and shortly after, the junta fell.
    Foreign Affairs, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Chinese weapons flow both to the ruling junta and to the resistance forces that are fighting it.
    Hannah Beech, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2024
  • The junta that seized power in Thailand three years ago promises an election next year.
    The Economist, 18 July 2017
  • This is not the first attempt to destabilize Mali’s ruling junta.
    Baba Ahmed, ajc, 17 May 2022
  • The military junta that ruled the nation for decades stripped them of their citizenship and rights.
    Edith M. Lederer, The Seattle Times, 5 Sep. 2017
  • Fitton-Brown said the junta in Bamako won’t get any support from outside.
    Tim Lister, CNN Money, 2 Nov. 2025
  • The junta in turn has voiced support for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
    Feliz Solomon, WSJ, 3 Aug. 2022
  • The biggest chill, activists say, comes from the junta’s use of lèse-majesté law and the widening range of cases to which it is applied.
    James Hookway, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2017
  • Now the junta that ousted her seeks to hold sham polls in December to entrench and legitimize their rule.
    Kim Aris, Time, 7 Nov. 2025
  • The region is reported to have active resistance groups against the junta.
    Rajeev Tyagi, ABC News, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The junta in Guinea-Bissau promises a one-year transition.
    Tomi Oladipo, semafor.com, 1 Dec. 2025
  • According to the book, she was sent there to speak with the military junta that controlled the country at the time — which had blocked the platform.
    Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 12 Mar. 2025
  • One example of the former was Argentina after the Peróns, which was led by a junta.
    Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2026
  • While the Mugabes and the junta negotiated, the public had a chance to say goodbye.
    The Economist, 15 Sep. 2019
  • Mali's junta came to power in an August 2020 coup that began as a mutiny at the Kati base.
    Reuters, CNN, 22 July 2022
  • The military junta has billed the vote, which was held in three stages concluding this Sunday, as a return to democracy.
    Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 23 Jan. 2026
  • The heart of Myanmar’s rare earths mining operations was in the hands of an ethnic Kachin militia tied to the junta.
    Hannah Beech, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2024

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