as in rebels
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 insurgents
Yet those soldiers and sailors had to stretch across a vast global canvas, leaving fewer than three in ten of them to try to rout the insurgents in North America.
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Literary Hub, 7 Nov. 2025
Subsequent reporting showed how Maduro loyalists infiltrated the training camps of the would-be liberators and betrayed their cause, leading to the execution of six leaders and capture of dozens of insurgents.
—Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 7 Nov. 2025
Ilana presents herself as a stout-hearted reformer who’s being targeted by fascistic insurgents but is secretly evil enough to engineer an apocalypse.
—Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2025
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has successfully recruited prized political heavyweights in key battlegrounds, but left-wing insurgents are threatening to dash his plans to create a competitive midterm map for Democrats.
—Ramsey Touchberry, The Washington Examiner, 26 Oct. 2025
The best challenger brands think like cultural insurgents.
—Erik Huberman, Rolling Stone, 10 Oct. 2025
Islamist insurgents have since May attacked Malian and foreign-owned businesses, including cement factories, sugar factories, and mines.
—Preeti Jha, semafor.com, 10 Oct. 2025
Like the Industrial Revolution-era insurgents, the new Luddites are not anti-technology but anti-exploitation, the tech journalist Brian Merchant tells me.
—Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2025
This might enable a mission which, for example, a Viper is located covertly next to a safe house known to be used by insurgents.
—David Hambling, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Literary Hub, 7 Nov. 2025
Subsequent reporting showed how Maduro loyalists infiltrated the training camps of the would-be liberators and betrayed their cause, leading to the execution of six leaders and capture of dozens of insurgents.
—Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 7 Nov. 2025
Ilana presents herself as a stout-hearted reformer who’s being targeted by fascistic insurgents but is secretly evil enough to engineer an apocalypse.
—Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2025
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has successfully recruited prized political heavyweights in key battlegrounds, but left-wing insurgents are threatening to dash his plans to create a competitive midterm map for Democrats.
—Ramsey Touchberry, The Washington Examiner, 26 Oct. 2025
The best challenger brands think like cultural insurgents.
—Erik Huberman, Rolling Stone, 10 Oct. 2025
Islamist insurgents have since May attacked Malian and foreign-owned businesses, including cement factories, sugar factories, and mines.
—Preeti Jha, semafor.com, 10 Oct. 2025
Like the Industrial Revolution-era insurgents, the new Luddites are not anti-technology but anti-exploitation, the tech journalist Brian Merchant tells me.
—Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2025
This might enable a mission which, for example, a Viper is located covertly next to a safe house known to be used by insurgents.
—David Hambling, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for insurgents
Noun
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Young Ofelia and her pregnant mother have been brought to live in the countryside, where her brutal stepfather Captain Vidal’s job is to wipe out the remaining rebels camped in the local forest.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
5 Nov. 2025
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The apparent killing – captured on video shared online by the rebels themselves – took place at a university medical school in El Fasher in Sudan’s western Darfur region after the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) took over the city on Sunday.—
Ivana Kottasová,
CNN Money,
30 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Each robot, remotely operated, clinks glasses and gestures in unison, embodying the camaraderie and hope of the musical’s revolutionaries.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Nov. 2025
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Paul’s youth and vigor comes with lots of risk, the work of prior revolutionaries threatened to be set back many years.—
David John Chávez,
Mercury News,
28 Oct. 2025
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“Insurgents.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/insurgents. Accessed 21 Nov. 2025.
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