as in revolutionary
taking part in a rebellion
any insurgent soldiers will be dealt with harshly
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as in rebel
a person who rises up against authority
the government subjected the insurgents to the most inhuman torture imaginable
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Recent Examples of insurgent
Max Foster, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2025
And their coalition is divided between a centrist establishment and an insurgent progressive wing with diverging priorities in addressing inequality.
—Nathan Meyers, The Conversation, 11 July 2025
Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2026
The act as insurgent against privilege, set to die in the rot of reason.
—Literary Hub, 31 Mar. 2026
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Adjective
Although some analysts have suggested Starmer may quietly be pleased with the resignation of his main rival and potential successor, the toppling of Rayner caps off what has been a dreadful summer for Labour, in which the party has lost more ground in the polls to the insurgent Reform UK.
—Max Foster, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2025
And their coalition is divided between a centrist establishment and an insurgent progressive wing with diverging priorities in addressing inequality.
—Nathan Meyers, The Conversation, 11 July 2025
Noun
While serving a tour of duty outside the province of Kandahar in Afghanistan in August of 2011, he was ambushed by Taliban insurgents disguised in Afghan National Army uniforms.
—Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2026
The act as insurgent against privilege, set to die in the rot of reason.
—Literary Hub, 31 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for insurgent
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Against a backdrop of tennis courts, luxury hotels, and colonial privilege, simmering tensions erupt as Lan’s brother Tran rejects his wealthy family’s collaboration with the French to join Ho Chi Minh’s revolutionary cause, setting off an assassination that changes everything.—
Todd Spangler,
Variety,
15 Apr. 2026
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Brightman concludes that the gusher in AI investment doesn’t mean that this revolutionary advance will prove a big profit spinner for the Big Four.—
Shawn Tully,
Fortune,
15 Apr. 2026
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Julian is both old and a devout rebel, with a lifetime’s worth of wisdom, wit and burned bridges in his arsenal.—
Lindsey Bahr,
Boston Herald,
16 Apr. 2026
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Why isn’t Homelander lasering these rebels immediately?—
Ben Rosenstock,
Vulture,
15 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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The temperamental Moon activates your 3rd House of Communication, forming a supportive trine to rebellious Uranus in your 7th House of Companions.—
Tarot.com,
Baltimore Sun,
10 Apr. 2026
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The series picks up 15 years after the finale of The Handmaid's Tale, and follows Agnes and Daisy (Lucy Halliday), a rebellious newcomer.—
Julia Moore,
PEOPLE,
9 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Russell fabricates a lie with the rest of the villains, and the heroes believe it, despite a warning from one traitorous tribemate.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Dec. 2025
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That video drew the ire of President Donald Trump, who deemed it traitorous.—
Mike Wall,
Space.com,
25 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Mazzini therefore proposed to rely solely upon a national insurrectionary movement, aiming at unity in a free republic.—
Britannica Editors,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
12 Mar. 2026
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The government alleges the Sotos were part of a group of people who created and distributed insurrectionary materials called zines.—
Emerson Clarridge
Updated March 6,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
6 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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After navigating the treacherous play-in round the past three years to make it to the playoffs, and even the NBA Finals in 2023, the Heat’s run of six consecutive seasons in the playoffs is over.—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
15 Apr. 2026
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For truckers, that stretch of New Orleans East had become an asphalt Bermuda Triangle—a treacherous gantlet best avoided.—
Patrick Radden Keefe,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2026
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And the crowd, so mutinous and angry on Saturday, were positive and supportive throughout.—
Jack Pitt-Brooke,
New York Times,
21 Jan. 2026
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But then a twist of fate in the form of a mutinous slave ship off the coast of the United States offered an opportunity to take the battle over slavery to the courts.—
Time,
Time,
24 Sep. 2025
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