as in rebellions
open fighting against authority (as one's own government)
the famous insurrection of the slaves in ancient Rome under Spartacus
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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.
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Alison Durkee, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
Alison Durkee, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for insurrections
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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
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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
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Peasant revolts have been a thing right alongside revolutionary history the entire time.—
Nikki McCann Ramirez,
Rolling Stone,
22 Sep. 2025
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One can scarcely draw solace from the trajectories of those recent revolts.—
Kapil Komireddi,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
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This summer alone has seen youth uprisings in Nepal, Angola, and Indonesia, to say nothing of ongoing youth mobilization worldwide for a free Palestine.—
Heather Hunter,
The Washington Examiner,
25 Sep. 2025
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The persecution worsened more than a decade ago during uprisings that remade the Middle East by toppling dictators — including Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak — but in some places spiraled into civil war.—
Hannah Allam,
ProPublica,
10 Sep. 2025
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“Insurrections.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/insurrections. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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