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
And the Shelton factory would not have been on even the most inept anarchist’s to-hit list.
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Jody Mamone, Hartford Courant, 2 Mar. 2025
The plutocrats and anarchists of the Gilded Age The novelist who explored the edges of normalcy
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If current trends hold, each generation in Korea will be a third the size of the previous one.
—Hannah Jocelyn, The New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2025
Others on board included modernist Russian poet and a Trotskyite anarchist Victor Serge, Martinican poet and a founder of the anticolonialism Négritude movement Aimé Césaire, Cuban painter Wifredo Lam; influential Marxist psychiatrist and Pan-Africanist Frantz Fanon, along with fascinating others.
—Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2025
And Birmingham, the son of a police officer and a mom who did social work, admit to being something of an anarchist.
—Lisa Kennedy, Variety, 3 Feb. 2025
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Jody Mamone, Hartford Courant, 2 Mar. 2025
The plutocrats and anarchists of the Gilded Age The novelist who explored the edges of normalcy
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If current trends hold, each generation in Korea will be a third the size of the previous one.
—Hannah Jocelyn, The New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2025
Others on board included modernist Russian poet and a Trotskyite anarchist Victor Serge, Martinican poet and a founder of the anticolonialism Négritude movement Aimé Césaire, Cuban painter Wifredo Lam; influential Marxist psychiatrist and Pan-Africanist Frantz Fanon, along with fascinating others.
—Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2025
And Birmingham, the son of a police officer and a mom who did social work, admit to being something of an anarchist.
—Lisa Kennedy, Variety, 3 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for anarchist
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There, Neto and Rafael — revolutionaries and lovers — are separated by the Salvadoran conflict.—
Chris Vognar,
Los Angeles Times,
14 May 2025
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The film centers on the young Syrian revolutionaries who rebel against the regime of then-Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad’s and create an secret underground library with thousands of books buried under the ruins.—
Elsa Keslassy,
Variety,
14 May 2025
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Despite all their years of playing cat-and-mouse, Diego Luna’s rebel spy Cassian Andor and Kyle Soller‘s Empire agent Syril Karn have never had much screen time together — until now.—
Jordan Moreau,
Variety,
7 May 2025
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Israel has repeatedly targeted the rebels in Yemen.—
Elena Becatoros,
Los Angeles Times,
6 May 2025
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As threats from insurgents faded, crackdowns by an authoritarian government surged.—
Mitra Taj,
New York Times,
17 May 2025
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As a result, the new international legal architecture curbed starvation tactics in interstate wars and during occupations but stopped short of fully criminalizing the weapon, particularly when used by poorer states against insurgent groups in civil wars.—
Boyd van Dijk,
Foreign Affairs,
30 Apr. 2025
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