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or coups d'etat
also coup d'états
or coup d'etats
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National leaders, when killed by foreign adversaries, had usually been dealt with through coups and via proxy militias.—
Séamus Malekafzali,
Washington Post,
8 Jan. 2026 -
The Venezuelan government has denied these allegations, portraying the agency as essential to defending national sovereignty against coups and foreign intervention.—
Antonio María Delgado,
Miami Herald,
6 Jan. 2026
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The United States could be on its 49th president by then, and Venezuela would need to remake its government as a democracy and resist potential uprisings.—
David Goldman,
CNN Money,
6 Jan. 2026
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The techniques of repression have become so refined that, as in Iran thus far, popular uprisings have been suppressed by efficient riot control and selective arrests and murders.—
Eliot A. Cohen,
The Atlantic,
4 Jan. 2026
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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
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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
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The result was that, where earlier fiscal crises had been met by waves of municipal-level revolts against mainstream economic policies, New York witnessed no such revolts in the 1970s.—
Daniel Wortel-London,
Washington Post,
5 Jan. 2026
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The Onondagas support plans announced by the mayor of Syracuse in 2020 to remove the statue of Columbus, an Italian explorer who helped the Spanish establish a colonial foothold in the Caribbean and later suppressed revolts by Indigenous people.—
Eva Roytburg,
Fortune,
11 Oct. 2025
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Pervasive disregard for the orders to integrate facilities fueled violent race rebellions across the country in the summer of 1943.—
Time,
Time,
5 Nov. 2025
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The display is typically only removed in cases of high treason or rebellions against the Crown, according to The Sun.—
Charlotte Phillipp,
PEOPLE,
23 Oct. 2025
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Wars and insurrections have afflicted other parts of the Middle East, but Baghdad—a city whose name was once synonymous with suicide bombings and sectarian murder—has been spared.—
Robert F. Worth,
The Atlantic,
28 Oct. 2025
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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
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In this sense, the rebellion led by Joseph Cinque and his comrades sheds light not only on slave ship insurgencies, but also on the richness of African challenges to enslavement.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Dec. 2025
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Takeovers in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, for example, were driven in part by growing terrorist insurgencies, Russian disinformation and rising anti-French sentiment.—
John Joseph Chin,
The Conversation,
1 Dec. 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 10 Jan. 2026.
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