insurrections

plural of insurrection

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Recent Examples of insurrections The president can also legally invoke the military under the Insurrection Act, which allows troops to be deployed in order to curb insurrections. Alison Durkee, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
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Noun
  • Wars that lasted a hundred years, wars between Lutherans and Catholics and between Christians and Muslims, the siege of Constantinople, Mitteleuropa’s peasant rebellions, the lowland’s revolt against Spain, England’s conquest of Ireland.
    Greg Grandin September 23, Literary Hub, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Police would kill many more people in the rebellions that occasionally broke out afterwards, in Miami and Los Angeles and elsewhere.
    Tom O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The Onondagas support plans announced by the mayor of Syracuse in 2020 to remove the statue of Columbus, an Italian explorer who helped the Spanish establish a colonial foothold in the Caribbean and later suppressed revolts by Indigenous people.
    Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Peasant revolts have been a thing right alongside revolutionary history the entire time.
    Nikki McCann Ramirez, Rolling Stone, 22 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The uprisings moved through the region as the Arab Spring ignited, and tens of millions of frustrated residents went online to coordinate.
    Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
  • More multicasts of our sonic uprisings to compete with America's myopic narrowcasting.
    Rodney Carmichael, NPR, 1 Oct. 2025

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“Insurrections.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/insurrections. Accessed 16 Oct. 2025.

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