as in rebelling
to rise up against established authority
the party's conservative faction mutinied just before the election
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The teenagers were rebelling, like teenagers are supposed to.—
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CNN Money,
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After rebelling against the authority of the Jade Emperor (the supreme deity in traditional Chinese cosmology), he is subdued by the Buddha and imprisoned beneath the Five Elements Mountain.—
Frannie Comstock,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
26 May 2026
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“Mutinying.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mutinying. Accessed 8 Jun. 2026.
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