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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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.
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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
Naturally, that makes a hero of the last president to pull it off — even if McKinley did so reluctantly and had more than a few regrets before he was assassinated by an anarchist.
—David E. Sanger, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
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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
Naturally, that makes a hero of the last president to pull it off — even if McKinley did so reluctantly and had more than a few regrets before he was assassinated by an anarchist.
—David E. Sanger, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
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In celebration of this historic ride, M.S. Rau in New Orleans is offering three silver pieces handcrafted by the American revolutionary, including a coffee pot for $1,285,000.—
Richard Johnson,
New York Daily News,
13 Apr. 2025
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The film finds DiCaprio playing a hard-living revolutionary who is trying to rescue his kidnapped daughter.—
Brent Lang,
Variety,
2 Apr. 2025
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In confrontations with both India and Iran, Pakistan has consistently denied offering safe haven to transnational rebels at a time when the country was struggling to stem a deadly wave of attacks by insurgents against its own soldiers and civilians.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 Apr. 2025
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Many Muslim Kashmiris support the rebels’ goal of uniting the territory, either under Pakistani rule or as an independent country.—
Aijaz Hussain,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Apr. 2025
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Meanwhile, the insurgents attacking the American soldiers are truly faceless.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
11 Apr. 2025
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The mission began in fairly standard form: The SEALs infiltrated a bleak and dusty corner of Ramadi that happened to overlook a marketplace and, unbeknownst to them, also sat across from the lair of the Iraqi insurgents.—
Fred Schruers,
IndieWire,
10 Apr. 2025
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“Anarchist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/anarchist. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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