counterrevolution

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Recent Examples of counterrevolution This time around, some of the most influential figures in Trump’s court have commitments to the anti-liberal counterrevolution: Vice President J. D. Vance, Elon Musk, Donald Trump Jr., and Tucker Carlson, to name a few. Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 19 Mar. 2025 These choices take command of the struggle against any possible counterrevolution. Armond White, National Review, 17 Jan. 2025 The Thatcher-Reagan neoliberal counterrevolution combined with reactionary populist anti-intellectualism to seemingly seal the ivory tower’s fate—and to attack universities as bastions of campus revolt and as alternative centers of civil society. Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 4 Jan. 2025 The phenomenal success of this counterrevolution was due to a simple insight. Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 20 Aug. 2024 See All Example Sentences for counterrevolution
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counterinsurgency
Noun
  • With Iranian and Russian counterinsurgency efforts thrown into disarray by the change of power in Damascus, the U.S. has stepped up strikes against ISIS and Al-Qaeda in Syria over the past three months.
    Mark Davis, Newsweek, 14 Mar. 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

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