insurrectionist

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Recent Examples of insurrectionist But, first, one of the January 6th insurrectionists, emboldened by his pardon from the President, is now campaigning for reparations. Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2025 Kinzinger goes on to say that when the insurrectionist is one of their own, the rules are different. Tom Jurkowsky, Baltimore Sun, 11 Aug. 2025 Fragoso asked of the insurrectionists. EW.com, 4 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for insurrectionist
Noun
  • Hegseth likened the Colombian rebel group to the al Qaeda terror group founded by Usama bin Laden in Afghanistan.
    Greg Norman , Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The Romans were masters at using rewards and punishment to manage foreign states, from grants of citizenship to massacres of rebels.
    Barry Strauss, Time, 21 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • Most of the records on the Haitian revolution were written by people who opposed the revolutionaries.
    Julia Gaffield, The Conversation, 15 Oct. 2025
  • The Mexican actor plays revolutionaries in both season 2 of Star Wars series Andor and new movie musical, Kiss of the Spider Woman.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Oct. 2025

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“Insurrectionist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/insurrectionist. Accessed 27 Oct. 2025.

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