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adjective

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Recent Examples of apostate
Noun
If the conflict in Syria is a religious war against apostates rather than a geopolitical scuffle, more militants will be drawn toward the conflict and away from the crown. Andrew L. Peek, Foreign Affairs, 7 Mar. 2016 Liz Cheney, the former Republican congresswoman from Wyoming and an ardent conservative, is an apostate for modern times. David Remnick, The New Yorker, 10 Dec. 2023 The latter — driven by an apocalyptic, millenarian creed — had embarked on a frenzy of killing, torture, grisly execution and abductions of civilians from communities of supposed apostates and enemies. Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2023 Moribund groups have sputtered to life, former brothers-in-arms have declared one another apostates, and erstwhile hunters of jihadists have joined their ranks. Foreign Affairs, 15 Aug. 2017 See all Example Sentences for apostate 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for apostate
Noun
  • Another grievance that defectors and deserters commonly cited was declining salaries.
    Mara R. Revkin, Foreign Affairs, 1 May 2016
  • According to some reports, defectors and deserters have been burned or frozen to death in Iraq.
    Mara R. Revkin, Foreign Affairs, 1 May 2016
Noun
  • Anyone who refuses to label a traitor to the U.S. as a traitor is completely unqualified to lead our intelligence community.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 31 Jan. 2025
  • Senator Michael Bennet, D-Colo., hammered Gabbard on her refusal to characterize Snowden as a traitor.
    Aysha Bagchi, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Indeed, the most compelling wines of the Vin de France share some version of a renegade origin story: Landmark wines rejected by an AOC due to petty bureaucratic technicalities.
    Anna Lee C. Iijima, Bon Appétit, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Brutality, complicated by a Mormon militia and some renegade Shoshone warriors.
    Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Yemen’s Houthi rebels continue to attack shipping traffic through the Red Sea, but an emboldened Israel has scored direct hits against its fighters, including inside Yemen itself.
    Ian Bremmer, TIME, 2 Feb. 2025
  • Though it is touted by many as the world’s best missile defense, attacks by Iran last year showed that the Iron Done is far from unbeatable, with projectiles fired by Tehran and Houthi rebels landing in Israel.
    Brad Lendon, CNN, 31 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • The potential members of a schismatic Catholic sect are located in areas of the world such as the United States, where the church has significant financial resources and assets, plus a wide array of independent Catholic institutions that operate largely outside the hierarchy of the church.
    Massimo Faggioli, Foreign Affairs, 11 Oct. 2018
  • But Barzani’s setback only birthed a schismatic new cadre of Kurdish leaders.
    Behnam Ben Taleblu, Foreign Affairs, 8 Nov. 2017
Noun
  • As was the case in the Middle East and Afghanistan, ISIS' West Africa Province (ISWAP) cultivated local partnerships by capitalizing on existing conflicts between government forces and insurgents, including Nigeria's powerful Boko Haram, to establish itself as a major player in the region.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 19 Jan. 2025
  • After the election, Craig, who is 52 and was first elected in 2018, took on the old guard again, launching an insurgent challenge against two much more senior, septuagenarian lawmakers to be the top Democrat on the Agriculture Committee.
    Scott Wong, NBC news, 31 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Lenders typically require a 620 for conventional loans, although Bank of America does accept nontraditional forms of credit for conventional, FHA and VA loans.
    Kelsey Neubauer, CNBC, 30 Jan. 2025
  • Leavitt began the press briefing by mentioning the rising impact of podcasters and nontraditional media outlets during the 2024 campaign season.
    Mabinty Quarshie, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 28 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Osip Mandelstam wrote a seminal essay on Dante, which is also an ars poetica, around the time that he was sent into internal exile under Stalin, and Seamus Heaney began a decades-long intimacy with the Comedy in the nineteen-seventies, as sectarian violence in Northern Ireland worsened.
    Elisa Gonzalez, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
  • The printing press led to the Reformation but also a lot of bloody sectarian warfare.
    Stuart Miller, Orange County Register, 3 Feb. 2025

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