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or coups d'etat
also coup d'états
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Other African leaders would have terms either too short, broken by coups or assassinations, or too long, extended by a refusal to leave office; Nkrumah’s tenure somehow managed both.—
Kelefa Sanneh,
New Yorker,
6 Oct. 2025 -
The country has endured 14 military coups, from the 1889 coup that ended the monarchy and gave birth to the Republic of Brazil to Bolsonaro’s failed 2022 attempt to prevent Lula from taking power.—
Omar G. Encarnación,
Foreign Affairs,
29 Sep. 2025
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The uprisings moved through the region as the Arab Spring ignited, and tens of millions of frustrated residents went online to coordinate.—
Mandy Taheri,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Oct. 2025
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More multicasts of our sonic uprisings to compete with America's myopic narrowcasting.—
Rodney Carmichael,
NPR,
1 Oct. 2025
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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 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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Peasant revolts have been a thing right alongside revolutionary history the entire time.—
Nikki McCann Ramirez,
Rolling Stone,
22 Sep. 2025
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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
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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
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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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Pinochet was proud of his personal library, with books on guerrilla insurgencies, the writings of Antonio Gramsci and other Marxist theorists, and accounts of communist crimes.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Oct. 2025
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Recent history in places such as Afghanistan and Iraq suggests that insurgencies can wear down regular armies over time.—
Hussein Ibish,
The Atlantic,
1 Oct. 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 15 Oct. 2025.
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