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
More than 40,000 people in Nigeria have been killed since Boko Haram’s insurgency began, according to data from the United Nations.
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Monika Pronczuk, Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2026
Yet in the early years of the insurgency there were talks to try and reach a settlement, until both sides accused each other of bad faith.
—Obi Anyadike, semafor.com, 23 Mar. 2026
During that period, Hezbollah engaged in insurgency warfare, fueled by religious zeal and supported by Iran.
—Asher Kaufman, The Conversation, 20 Mar. 2026
No group claimed responsibility for the attacks, but suspicion quickly fell on the Boko Haram jihadi group, which in 2009 launched an insurgency in northeastern Nigeria to enforce their radical interpretation of Sharia, or Islamic law.
—Arkansas Online, 19 Mar. 2026
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Monika Pronczuk, Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2026
Yet in the early years of the insurgency there were talks to try and reach a settlement, until both sides accused each other of bad faith.
—Obi Anyadike, semafor.com, 23 Mar. 2026
During that period, Hezbollah engaged in insurgency warfare, fueled by religious zeal and supported by Iran.
—Asher Kaufman, The Conversation, 20 Mar. 2026
No group claimed responsibility for the attacks, but suspicion quickly fell on the Boko Haram jihadi group, which in 2009 launched an insurgency in northeastern Nigeria to enforce their radical interpretation of Sharia, or Islamic law.
—Arkansas Online, 19 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for insurgency
Noun
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In 2021, she was profiled by multiple magazines for painting the January 6 insurrection.—
Alex Greenberger,
ARTnews.com,
11 Apr. 2026
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Facing insurrection charges, Kimbangu was sentenced to death.—
Rodney Muhumuza,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Apr. 2026
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The Testaments The Testaments picks up 15 years after The Handmaid’s Tale’s June Osborne (Elisabeth Moss) led Boston in a successful revolt against Gilead.—
Rebecca Aizin,
PEOPLE,
10 Apr. 2026
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The difference, according to him, is that, unlike Lenin’s Communist revolution, the right-wing revolt will empower people who are good.—
Jonathan Chait,
The Atlantic,
10 Apr. 2026
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The fears of robot uprising, from his perspective, are essentially the fears of slave revolt, of the working class seizing the means of production.—
Deni Ellis Béchard,
Scientific American,
8 Apr. 2026
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Many Iranians are angry at their leaders, but there has been no sign of an uprising since authorities crushed mass protests in January, before the war.—
Jon Gambrell,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Apr. 2026
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The memoirs are valued above all for their candor, though Jahangir chose to avoid writing about his earlier rebellion against his father, Akbar.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
9 Apr. 2026
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Many of the stories in the book are tragic Icarus narratives, featuring acts of rebellion that succeed in one brief ecstatic burst, and then resoundingly fail.—
Kyle Chayka,
New Yorker,
8 Apr. 2026
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The ur-mutiny, encompassing some of these, provoking and provoked by others, is MAGA.—
George Packer,
The Atlantic,
16 Mar. 2026
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That mobility occasionally allowed for communication and coordination during mutinies.—
Ed Gaskin,
Boston Herald,
8 Mar. 2026
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