as in revolutionary
a person who believes that government and laws are not necessary
The anarchists decided to move to a remote location that was, for all intents and purposes, lawless.
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Recent Examples of anarchist
Christian Slater plays the mysterious anarchist Mr. Robot.
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Lauren Huff, EW.com, 4 July 2025
Others were anonymous anarchists, dreamers, poets, preachers and lunatics.
—Carolyn Stein, Chicago Tribune, 1 June 2025
Jewish anarchists in America Max moved to Philadelphia in 1906 to work with another immigrant named Joseph Cohen.
—Geoffrey Baym, The Conversation, 5 May 2025
As political scientist Krzysztof Wasilewski writes, in the 1880s, tarring immigrants as anarchists became a convenient way for American media to smear labor organizing.
—Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 9 Aug. 2024
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Lauren Huff, EW.com, 4 July 2025
Others were anonymous anarchists, dreamers, poets, preachers and lunatics.
—Carolyn Stein, Chicago Tribune, 1 June 2025
Jewish anarchists in America Max moved to Philadelphia in 1906 to work with another immigrant named Joseph Cohen.
—Geoffrey Baym, The Conversation, 5 May 2025
As political scientist Krzysztof Wasilewski writes, in the 1880s, tarring immigrants as anarchists became a convenient way for American media to smear labor organizing.
—Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 9 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for anarchist
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Further east, the Russian revolutionaries of 1917 adopted a utopian faith in material progress and science.—
Sonja Fritzsche,
The Conversation,
9 Sep. 2025
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The movie follows DiCaprio as a former political revolutionary named Bob Ferguson who goes on the run when a military leader named Steven Lockjaw (Penn) renews his search for Ferguson and his family.—
Tommy McArdle,
PEOPLE,
9 Sep. 2025
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But in a region being fought over by a patchwork of anti-junta rebel groups, the military and pro-military militia – and given the widespread distrust of the Rohingya – information on where exactly his family are, or what will become of them, has not been forthcoming.—
Esha Mitra,
CNN Money,
14 Sep. 2025
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By the finale, the galactic chessboard is crowded with players—emperors, rebels, prophets, impostors—but as Hari Seldon (Jared Harris) warned in the very first episode, the center cannot hold.—
JP Mangalindan,
Time,
12 Sep. 2025
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Although some analysts have suggested Starmer may quietly be pleased with the resignation of his main rival and potential successor, the toppling of Rayner caps off what has been a dreadful summer for Labour, in which the party has lost more ground in the polls to the insurgent Reform UK.—
Max Foster,
CNN Money,
5 Sep. 2025
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This might enable a mission which, for example, a Viper is located covertly next to a safe house known to be used by insurgents.—
David Hambling,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Since those early beginnings, the invention’s larger structure has evolved to assume narrative shapes, such as the regular geography of Christopher Robin’s Hundred Acre Wood (where the anarch is the merrily spontaneous Winnie-the-Pooh).—
Angus Fletcher,
Smithsonian Magazine,
10 Mar. 2021
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TikTok, Bluesky, Substack, the gaming platform Discord and other new players, big and small, can all learn from past policies for keeping extremists off the Internet—and return to those content moderation roots.—
Steven Stalinsky,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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High-profile extremists of the time such as Richard Butler, Robert Mathews and David Lane supported the plan.—
Paul J. Becker,
The Conversation,
5 Sep. 2025
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“Anarchist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/anarchist. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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