anarchist

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 The attack, which resulted in considerable destruction and numerous fatalities, remains unsolved; however, it is widely attributed to the actions of Italian anarchists. Lorenzino Estrada, AZCentral.com, 16 Sep. 2025 In 1909, anarchists burned several churches. D. T. Max, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025 Throughout the late nineteenth century and much of the twentieth, Jewish socialists, liberals, anarchists, and Zionists all saw their respective political programs as offering a remedy for anti-Semitism. Daniel May, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025 There’s a character who is an anarchist, and anarchism becomes a thread through the whole book. Michael Schaub, Oc Register, 11 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for anarchist
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Noun
  • Most of the records on the Haitian revolution were written by people who opposed the revolutionaries.
    Julia Gaffield, The Conversation, 15 Oct. 2025
  • The Mexican actor plays revolutionaries in both season 2 of Star Wars series Andor and new movie musical, Kiss of the Spider Woman.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Hegseth likened the Colombian rebel group to the Al Qaeda terror group founded by Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan.
    Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 19 Oct. 2025
  • The Moscow meeting was remarkable given that Russia is harboring Syria’s former president, Bashar al-Assad, whose government was overthrown by rebels led by al-Sharaa.
    Ben Smith, semafor.com, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The best challenger brands think like cultural insurgents.
    Erik Huberman, Rolling Stone, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Islamist insurgents have since May attacked Malian and foreign-owned businesses, including cement factories, sugar factories, and mines.
    Preeti Jha, semafor.com, 10 Oct. 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
Noun
  • For too long in Kansas, the Republican Party has been dominated by extremists who see no room for moderation or bipartisanship, let alone unity or mutual respect.
    Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 15 Oct. 2025
  • So what happens when extremists wear their clothes?
    Alexandra Banner, CNN Money, 15 Oct. 2025

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