insurrectionists

plural of insurrectionist

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of insurrectionists 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 Fragoso asked of the insurrectionists. EW.com, 4 Aug. 2025 Under Section 3 of the Constitution's 14th Amendment, insurrectionists are banned from holding federal office. Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 7 Mar. 2025 The numbers indicate an uptick in disapproval for the move after a Reuters/Ipsos poll from last month found that 58 percent of Americans were not in favor of the president pardoning the insurrectionists. Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 21 Feb. 2025 At best, these pardons excuse the violence that took place on January 6, and at worst, encourage that kind of violence in the future by essentially promising would-be insurrectionists forgiveness. Vox Staff, Vox, 23 Jan. 2025 No, the insurrectionists were not patriots. Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 20 Dec. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for insurrectionists
Noun
  • 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
  • Currently Colombia’s security forces are facing their biggest threat since the 2016 peace deal with FARC rebels, fighting a slew of powerful armed groups tied to the narcotics trade.
    Alfie Pannell, Miami Herald, 20 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
  • At the time, the French people reporting on the ground and from abroad held Dessalines and other Haitian revolutionaries to a different standard.
    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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“Insurrectionists.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/insurrectionists. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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