as in insurrection
open fighting against authority (as one's own government)
there always seems to be insurgency of some type in that troubled country
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Recent Examples of insurgency
In such an environment, a large occupying army would set the stage for an insurgency whose fighters lived among the dense population like fish in the sea.
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Assaf Orion, Foreign Affairs, 3 June 2025
In a similar occurrence last September, torrential rains and a dam collapse in Nigeria’s northeastern Maiduguri caused severe flooding, leaving at least 30 people dead and displacing millions, worsening the humanitarian crisis caused by the Boko Haram insurgency.
—Taiwo Adebayo, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2025
The East African country of Somalia has been wracked for decades by attacks and insurgency from Islamist terrorists, both from ISIS and al-Shabab.
—Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 27 May 2025
For more than four decades, the Kurdish militant group known as the PKK waged an insurgency against the Turkish state that left some 40,000 people dead and reshaped the lives of millions.
—Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 23 May 2025
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Assaf Orion, Foreign Affairs, 3 June 2025
In a similar occurrence last September, torrential rains and a dam collapse in Nigeria’s northeastern Maiduguri caused severe flooding, leaving at least 30 people dead and displacing millions, worsening the humanitarian crisis caused by the Boko Haram insurgency.
—Taiwo Adebayo, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2025
The East African country of Somalia has been wracked for decades by attacks and insurgency from Islamist terrorists, both from ISIS and al-Shabab.
—Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 27 May 2025
For more than four decades, the Kurdish militant group known as the PKK waged an insurgency against the Turkish state that left some 40,000 people dead and reshaped the lives of millions.
—Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 23 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for insurgency
Noun
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All of these acts of insurrection reveal a nation unbowed in the face of violent oppression.—
Nuri Kino,
MSNBC Newsweek,
20 June 2025
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Mass deportations, the politicization of our military and the use of the military as props to create the suggestion of insurrection are classic authoritarian techniques to take over governments.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
18 June 2025
Noun
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The revolt by a large number of Labour MPs against benefit cuts imposed by Keir Starmer is an example.—
Mike O'Sullivan,
Forbes.com,
28 June 2025
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Rumors of connections between Saint Domingue and slave resistance abounded in Virginia after 1793 and shaped how whites understood Gabriel’s revolt in Richmond in 1800.—
Time,
Time,
9 June 2025
Noun
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In the decades after the Tibetan uprising in 1959, tens of thousands of Tibetans braved frostbite and Himalayan avalanches to live in the proximity of the 14th Dalai Lama.—
Omkar Khandekar,
NPR,
2 July 2025
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The Gulf Arabs financed the counter-revolution against the popular Arab uprisings and worked to counter the influence of a stronger Iran.—
Dina Esfandiary,
Time,
1 July 2025
Noun
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The third season opens in the wake of the deadly rebellion depicted in the Season 2 finale, which left Jung-Bae and many of Gi-hun’s allies dead.—
Monica Mercuri,
Forbes.com,
28 June 2025
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The law allows a president to federalize state National Guard troops under three conditions: in the event of an invasion, a rebellion or threat of rebellion, or when regular federal forces are unable to enforce the law.—
Martha McHardy
Shane Croucher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
20 June 2025
Noun
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Along the way, the exhausting voyage involved various mutinies and crew deaths, and upon reaching the islands of the Malayan Archipelago, Magellan’s mind and ambitions changed.—
Josh Slater-Williams,
IndieWire,
18 May 2025
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But the mutiny underscored for Putin that the country’s current business leaders and high-level bureaucrats cannot be relied on at moments of regime crisis.—
ANDREI YAKOVLEV,
Foreign Affairs,
16 May 2025
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“Insurgency.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/insurgency. Accessed 8 Jul. 2025.
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