coups d'état

variants or coups d'etat also coup d'états or coup d'etats
plural of coup d'état

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Noun
  • Of all of the casting coups that Anderson has pulled off over the years, the most impressive is still Mark Wahlberg’s turn as Dirk Diggler.
    Alison Willmore, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Khanna’s passion and depth of knowledge have yielded many coups, including notable interviews with the Silver Jews’ David Berman, in 2019, and with all the members of Fugazi, in 2024.
    Jane Bua, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • This summer alone has seen youth uprisings in Nepal, Angola, and Indonesia, to say nothing of ongoing youth mobilization worldwide for a free Palestine.
    Heather Hunter, The Washington Examiner, 25 Sep. 2025
  • The persecution worsened more than a decade ago during uprisings that remade the Middle East by toppling dictators — including Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak — but in some places spiraled into civil war.
    Hannah Allam, ProPublica, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • New York made four errors on the evening, including two overthrows that led to multiple free bases on the same play.
    Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Fields, who went 7-of-11 on the day, had a few overthrows on plays that likely were sacks.
    Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Peasant revolts have been a thing right alongside revolutionary history the entire time.
    Nikki McCann Ramirez, Rolling Stone, 22 Sep. 2025
  • One can scarcely draw solace from the trajectories of those recent revolts.
    Kapil Komireddi, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Wars that lasted a hundred years, wars between Lutherans and Catholics and between Christians and Muslims, the siege of Constantinople, Mitteleuropa’s peasant rebellions, the lowland’s revolt against Spain, England’s conquest of Ireland.
    Greg Grandin September 23, Literary Hub, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Police would kill many more people in the rebellions that occasionally broke out afterwards, in Miami and Los Angeles and elsewhere.
    Tom O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The president can also legally invoke the military under the Insurrection Act, which allows troops to be deployed in order to curb insurrections.
    Alison Durkee, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • African states, too, have started hiring Russian, Turkish, Romanian, and South African private military companies (PMCs) to battle insurgencies, to deploy drones against jihadists, and to reclaim resource-rich areas taken over by rebels.
    Alia Brahimi, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The area has been engulfed in decades-long conflict between armed ethnic groups and the Burmese authorities, who are now fighting multiple insurgencies following the 2021 military coup and its violent crackdown on opposition forces.
    Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 7 Mar. 2025
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“Coups d'état.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coups%20d%27%C3%A9tat. Accessed 1 Oct. 2025.

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