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
  • There is delight at Tottenham over what, alongside the £100m agreement for Newcastle United’s Sandro Tonali, represents a pair of significant coups.
    Mark Critchley, New York Times, 4 July 2026
  • Press freedoms across Africa are already fragile, with most nations ranking in the lower half of an influential press freedoms index, while numerous recent coups have contributed to a weakening of democratic norms in parts of the continent.
    Jenny Vaughan, semafor.com, 29 June 2026
Noun
  • Secessionist uprisings in the provinces like Tatarstan or Bashkortistan or Chechnya.
    Melik Kaylan, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
  • In the late sixteenth century, the Spanish Hapsburgs, the Catholic dynasty that ruled the Netherlands, sent in an army to crush a series of Calvinist uprisings.
    Clare Bucknell, Harpers Magazine, 23 June 2026
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
  • Starmer also has angered supporters with attempts to cut welfare spending, some of which were reversed after Labour revolts.
    CBS News, CBS News, 9 May 2026
  • Then came revolts and revolutions in Ireland, the Swiss cantons, the Rhineland, the Netherlands, the Italian states, and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
    Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
Noun
  • Most Southern states soon followed with anti-literacy laws of their own between 1740 and 1834, in the hopes of preventing any further slave rebellions.
    Rodney Coates, The Conversation, 16 June 2026
  • Rhaenyra is suddenly dealing with internal criticism, possible rebellions, subjects spray-painting nasty stuff on the walls and self-doubt.
    Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 29 May 2026
Noun
  • There were rebellions, insurrections and an Appian Way lined with crucifixions.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 27 Mar. 2026
  • But the regime, besieged by insurrections across the country, abandoned Manbij.
    Anand Gopal, New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • In the midst of past progressive insurgencies, such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s upset victory in the 2018 NY-14 Democratic primary and Jamaal Bowman’s 2020 win in NY-16, NYC unions were largely united in support of the incumbent representatives vying to hold onto their seats.
    Paxton Honerkamp, CNBC, 23 June 2026
  • An ultraradical offshoot of the Peruvian Communist Party, Shining Path was one of the most vicious insurgencies in Latin America.
    Michelle D. Paranzino, The Conversation, 11 June 2026
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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 5 Jul. 2026.

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