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Over the past few decades, a counterinsurgency has taken root in America, pushing back against factory farms and overprocessed food: a recognition that the journey from farm to table is usually industrialized and impersonal.
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Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 28 June 2025
Military personnel and analysts say countries like the U.K. have been focused on fighting counterinsurgency wars, particularly post-9/11, rather than what a conflict with Russia would look like.
—Ellie Cook, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 May 2025
In Maryland and Washington, D.C., the ongoing liberalization of sports-betting law is confronting a counterinsurgency.
—David B. McGarry, Baltimore Sun, 21 Apr. 2025
After that, Commander Reyes can dispatch to Fort Bragg to train our Green Berets on counterinsurgency warfare.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 23 Mar. 2025
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Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 28 June 2025
Military personnel and analysts say countries like the U.K. have been focused on fighting counterinsurgency wars, particularly post-9/11, rather than what a conflict with Russia would look like.
—Ellie Cook, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 May 2025
In Maryland and Washington, D.C., the ongoing liberalization of sports-betting law is confronting a counterinsurgency.
—David B. McGarry, Baltimore Sun, 21 Apr. 2025
After that, Commander Reyes can dispatch to Fort Bragg to train our Green Berets on counterinsurgency warfare.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 23 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for counterinsurgency
counterrevolution
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At the same time, a conservative counterrevolution began reclaiming jeans for themselves.—
Stephen Mihm,
Twin Cities,
22 Aug. 2025
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The revolution—and counterrevolutions across Europe—would speed the formation of nation-states in the nineteenth century.—
Michael Albertus,
Foreign Affairs,
24 June 2025
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