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Noun
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Keep your actual and suspected traitors closer – the non-loyal, uncommitted, secretive, suspicious, dishonest, deceitful, chronically negative, and regularly undermining.—
Peter D. Banko,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2026 -
Both groups were accused of being spies, traitors and collaborators, according to the report.—
Sam Metz,
Los Angeles Times,
9 June 2026
Noun
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Several aspects of the turnover process affect the likelihood that a leaver will recommend their former firm.—
Joseph Brazel,
Forbes.com,
19 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The Conservatives, currently led by Kemi Badenoch, slammed Braverman following her defection, characterizing her as an inevitable turncoat and questioning her mental faculties.—
Timothy Nerozzi,
The Washington Examiner,
26 Jan. 2026
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But the result is that a fair number of former Sanders allies or staffers have turned out to be MAGA turncoats, cranks, or washed out of politics altogether.—
Ryan Cooper,
Washington Post,
20 Jan. 2026
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The schools improved as more children attended them, and dropout rates at one school fell from 30-40 percent to 5 percent.—
Carrie Brandon Elliot,
Forbes.com,
18 May 2026
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The two first crossed paths in 2001, when Rich Boy was Maurice Richards, a soon-to-be dropout at Tuskegee University, studying mechanical engineering.—
Jayson Greene,
Pitchfork,
25 Apr. 2026
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Then go ahead and depict the country’s prime minister as the betrayer of Christ.—
David Frum,
The Atlantic,
21 May 2026
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Lesch plays the savior’s anguished betrayer not as an intellectual equal who fiercely debates him and loses all patience with the movement.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
3 May 2026
Noun
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Mahamat Idriss Déby, 42, seized power in Chad after his father, Idriss Déby, was killed fighting rebels in 2021, before winning elections in 2024.—
Farai Mutsaka,
Los Angeles Times,
18 June 2026
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The group has been responsible for current President Faustin-Archange Touadéra’s security and for fighting rebel groups.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
16 June 2026
Noun
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But what local powers must be surrendered to the insurgent American collectivity?—
Ann Manov,
Harpers Magazine,
23 June 2026
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The province has been the center of a long-running separatist insurgency, with insurgents demanding independence or greater control over local resources.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
22 June 2026
Noun
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Pitcairn is well-known as the island on which Fletcher Christian and other British mutineers from the HMS Bounty took refuge after the 1789 events that toppled Capt.—
Matthew Lee,
Los Angeles Times,
11 June 2026
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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,
Literary Hub,
20 Oct. 2025
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