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Recent Examples of disobedience Disgraced female Wakandan warrior Noni (voiced by Winnie Harlow), who has been banished from the kingdom’s female elite forces the Dora Milaje for disobedience, is dispatched on a mission to track-down the general and bring him back. Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 9 June 2025 Alleging disobedience, among other claimed doctrinal infractions, the OCA excommunicated the Homyks and longtime parish council leader Priscilla Rivera. Lauren Costantino, Miami Herald, 5 June 2025 In 2016, a British passenger flying Flybe—a now-defunct regional airline—from Amsterdam to Exeter was fined more than $600 for his disobedience. Katie Jackson, Travel + Leisure, 12 May 2025 The one who escalated the disobedience was the company under the direct command of its largest shareholder. Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for disobedience
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Noun
  • Kirk's assassination is the most high-profile example yet of what extremism researchers at the NCRI see as an increasingly dangerous normalization of political violence—often masked as satire, rebellion, or dark humor online.
    Jesus Mesa, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
  • One accommodation, the Rebel Suite, takes its design cues from the sea rebellions of Islay, full of nautical references, striking patterns, and bold green and blue hues.
    Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Others including, longtime Sacramento resident Richard Alcala, viewed the festivities as an act of defiance against the current presidential administration.
    Mathew Miranda, Sacbee.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • In Schorr’s photograph, the duo, played by Julia Garner and Cole Escola, is more ambiguous, more gender-flouting, projecting an air of affectionate defiance.
    The New Yorker, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • While this change reduces the explicit admission of willfulness, a narrative is still required.
    Virginia La Torre Jeker, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • This element of female rebelliousness is very important to me.
    Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019

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“Disobedience.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disobedience. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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