as in partisans
one who is intensely or excessively devoted to a cause
militants within the movement insisted that there could be no compromise on the issue
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Recent Examples of militants
Just hours after news of the ceasefire broke, it was reported that Israel’s internal security service, the Shin Bet, had apprehended a shipment of advanced Iranian weaponry destined for militants in the West Bank.
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Ilan Berman, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
The container shipping companies have steered clear of the Red Sea and the neighboring Gulf of Aden due to ongoing missile and drone attacks from Houthi militants based in Yemen.
—Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 10 Oct. 2025
Stowe published a second antislavery novel, Dred (1856), that presented Black militants fighting against slavery in North Carolina.
—Literary Hub, 10 Oct. 2025
This will also serve as a distraction so other militants can take more 'daring actions' elsewhere in the city.
—Rachel Wolf, FOXNews.com, 10 Oct. 2025
The devastating conflict started on October 7, 2023, when Hamas militants stormed Israel, killing 1,200 people and taking 250 hostage.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 9 Oct. 2025
He was separated from his wife, Lishay Miran-Lavi, and two daughters, during the attack on their home and seized by Hamas militants.
—Kathryn Palmer, USA Today, 9 Oct. 2025
Israeli hostages When Hamas launched its terrorist attack, militants kidnapped nearly 250 hostages -- including women, children and elderly adults -- and took them into Gaza.
—Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 7 Oct. 2025
October 7 marks two years since Hamas militants stormed into Israel launching a deadly attack that killed 1,200 people and took another 240 hostage, sparking a war in Gaza that still continues today.
—Lauren Costantino, Miami Herald, 3 Oct. 2025
Ilan Berman, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
The container shipping companies have steered clear of the Red Sea and the neighboring Gulf of Aden due to ongoing missile and drone attacks from Houthi militants based in Yemen.
—Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 10 Oct. 2025
Stowe published a second antislavery novel, Dred (1856), that presented Black militants fighting against slavery in North Carolina.
—Literary Hub, 10 Oct. 2025
This will also serve as a distraction so other militants can take more 'daring actions' elsewhere in the city.
—Rachel Wolf, FOXNews.com, 10 Oct. 2025
The devastating conflict started on October 7, 2023, when Hamas militants stormed Israel, killing 1,200 people and taking 250 hostage.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 9 Oct. 2025
He was separated from his wife, Lishay Miran-Lavi, and two daughters, during the attack on their home and seized by Hamas militants.
—Kathryn Palmer, USA Today, 9 Oct. 2025
Israeli hostages When Hamas launched its terrorist attack, militants kidnapped nearly 250 hostages -- including women, children and elderly adults -- and took them into Gaza.
—Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 7 Oct. 2025
October 7 marks two years since Hamas militants stormed into Israel launching a deadly attack that killed 1,200 people and took another 240 hostage, sparking a war in Gaza that still continues today.
—Lauren Costantino, Miami Herald, 3 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for militants
Noun
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Where the political polarization of AI goes next will probably depend on unpredictable future events and how partisans opportunistically seize on them.—
Nathan E. Sanders,
Time,
4 Oct. 2025
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Before long, though, partisans on the other side had the inflammatory billboards replaced.—
Jon Lee Anderson,
New Yorker,
29 Sep. 2025
Noun
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After years of advocating to expand private and religious education and homeschooling, using tax dollars, a cadre of conservative activists is in a position to push forward its agenda.—
Megan O’Matz,
ProPublica,
10 Oct. 2025
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Showing Up’s potentially myopic perspective contrasts significantly from Reichardt’s Night Moves, a film about radical white environmental activists whose designs of blowing up a dam backfires, causing their inept leader Josh (Jesse Eisenberg) to erratically cover his tracks.—
Robert Daniels,
Time,
10 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Today’s moral crusaders assume an elementary cause-and-effect relationship between books and readers.—
Kevin Dickinson,
Big Think,
2 Sep. 2025
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“Militants.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/militants. Accessed 15 Oct. 2025.
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