mutinousness

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mutinousness
Noun
  • Former Roanoke women's swim captain Lily Mullens, who led an athlete revolt against the program in 2023 that culminated in a press conference and lawsuit, told Fox News Digital her reaction to Spanberger's answer.
    Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 12 Oct. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • For me, there’s always the perversity of getting on a trendy bandwagon and just liking it for the irony.
    Marc Malkin, Variety, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Here, Henkel leans into the inherent perversity that lingered in the sequels but has rarely been effectively employed since Hooper’s original.
    Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 21 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • There has to be an insurrection in order for him to be allowed to invoke it.
    ABC News, ABC News, 12 Oct. 2025
  • First passed in 1792, the federal law gives presidents the power to deploy the military domestically under certain conditions, such as civil disorder, insurrection and armed rebellion.
    Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Baseball’s stubbornness and insistence on staggering all of its postseason games left a terrific pitcher’s duel between two of the game’s young stars to start shortly after lunch on the East Coast and just a bit after breakfast on the West Coast.
    Jason Lloyd, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
  • So, why does intellectual stubbornness so often carry the day?
    Shai Tubali, Big Think, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • For him, obstinacy was far worse than correction.
    Shai Tubali, Big Think, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Most tragically, the Palestinians have been given abundant reason to believe that obstinacy and terrorism are far better tools than concession and diplomacy.
    Tom Rogan, The Washington Examiner, 26 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Pakistan was one of the main backers of the Taliban during its insurgency against the Afghan government in the early 2000s.
    Lex Harvey, CNN Money, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Far from being a success, the fall of Baghdad marked the beginning of an insurgency that stretched on for years.
    Tom Bowman, NPR, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Playoffs have been under the shadow of league star Napheesa Collier speaking with pointed criticism of commissioner Cathy Engelbert in what amounts to a mutiny against the commish, with other players backing Collier.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 5 Oct. 2025
  • But to the enslaved Africans transported on these ships, that mermaid was a symbol of righteous rebellion and holy mutinies.
    Time, Time, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Made in India by 2026 Apple started looking for manufacturing alternatives after the pandemic outbreak and subsequent lockdown in China disrupted output at its largest assembly plant.
    Anniek Bao, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The firings included staff at the agency’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control who track suicide trends and those in charge of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), the CDC journal that reports disease outbreaks to public health agencies nationwide.
    Dan Vergano, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2025
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“Mutinousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mutinousness. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.

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