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Recent Examples of oppositionist
Deporting supposed gang members and Hamas supporters without due process may violate any number of statutes, but forcing oppositionists to defend these people’s rights allows the administration to paint them as defending their ideas.
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Garry Kasparov, The Atlantic, 17 Apr. 2025
Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) is a Sunni Islamist umbrella group of oppositionist forces with ideological and organizational roots in al-Qaeda.
—Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
Within Russia, the oppositionists’ challenges are far greater.
—Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 18 Sep. 2024
Russian oppositionists in exile face nearly insurmountable challenges.
—Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 18 Sep. 2024
Already, these fears have led Ukrainian oppositionist democrats, European intellectuals, and prominent Western analysts to call on the EU to put the integration process on hold.
—Rajan Menon, Foreign Affairs, 11 Oct. 2011
Characteristically, Navalny tried to buck up his fellow oppositionists.
—The Editors, National Review, 16 Feb. 2024
However, several prisoners from his ward have previously been treated for tuberculosis, the oppositionist said.
—Fox News, 7 Apr. 2021
Trump canceled Obama’s Title 50 program that armed Syrian oppositionists in July 2017.
—Charles Glass, Harper's magazine, 10 Feb. 2019
Garry Kasparov, The Atlantic, 17 Apr. 2025
Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) is a Sunni Islamist umbrella group of oppositionist forces with ideological and organizational roots in al-Qaeda.
—Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
Within Russia, the oppositionists’ challenges are far greater.
—Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 18 Sep. 2024
Russian oppositionists in exile face nearly insurmountable challenges.
—Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 18 Sep. 2024
Already, these fears have led Ukrainian oppositionist democrats, European intellectuals, and prominent Western analysts to call on the EU to put the integration process on hold.
—Rajan Menon, Foreign Affairs, 11 Oct. 2011
Characteristically, Navalny tried to buck up his fellow oppositionists.
—The Editors, National Review, 16 Feb. 2024
However, several prisoners from his ward have previously been treated for tuberculosis, the oppositionist said.
—Fox News, 7 Apr. 2021
Trump canceled Obama’s Title 50 program that armed Syrian oppositionists in July 2017.
—Charles Glass, Harper's magazine, 10 Feb. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for oppositionist
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Set in a crumbling Japanese metropolis rebuilt after a devastating explosion, Akira follows teenage rebels Kaneda and Tetsuo as secret government experiments unleash psychic forces capable of unmaking the world.—
Samantha Bergeson,
IndieWire,
21 May 2025
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In response, the commanders decide to meet in Washington D.C., and Serena (Yvonne Strahovski) finally chooses a side once and for all and gives up their plan to June (Elisabeth Moss) and the fellow rebels.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
20 May 2025
Noun
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As threats from insurgents faded, crackdowns by an authoritarian government surged.—
Mitra Taj,
New York Times,
17 May 2025
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As a result, the new international legal architecture curbed starvation tactics in interstate wars and during occupations but stopped short of fully criminalizing the weapon, particularly when used by poorer states against insurgent groups in civil wars.—
Boyd van Dijk,
Foreign Affairs,
30 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Among the resisters is a small but growing group of veterans, like Tamir, who openly express dissent and outrage.—
Ruth Margalit,
New Yorker,
14 May 2025
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Many war resisters, or draft dodgers as they were often called by others, were not interested in returning when Mr. Carter made his amnesty offer.—
Ruth Fremson,
New York Times,
3 May 2025
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In a country shackled and scarred by race, religion, gender, and class, much of that rationalized and reified by mainline American churches, the Disciples were genial revolutionists offering inclusion, education, and empowerment for those at the margins.—
Richard D. Mahoney,
JSTOR Daily,
30 Apr. 2025
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And many revolutionists think that new equipment has changed the patterns of advance and retreat in Ukraine relative to historical experience.—
Stephen Biddle,
Foreign Affairs,
10 Aug. 2023
Noun
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Greenwich Village was thick with activists, artists, and anarchists; Harlem was having its Renaissance.—
Alexandra Schwartz,
New Yorker,
5 May 2025
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Scores of downtown storefronts were boarded up in anticipation of clashes between cops and anarchists that, for a change, never materialized.—
Jason Motlagh,
Rolling Stone,
27 Apr. 2025
Noun
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There, Neto and Rafael — revolutionaries and lovers — are separated by the Salvadoran conflict.—
Chris Vognar,
Los Angeles Times,
14 May 2025
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The film centers on the young Syrian revolutionaries who rebel against the regime of then-Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad’s and create an secret underground library with thousands of books buried under the ruins.—
Elsa Keslassy,
Variety,
14 May 2025
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The games remain incomplete, and may in fact remain that way depending on what the Front Man decides to do with Gi-hun and all of the other mutineers.—
Josh Wigler,
The Hollywood Reporter,
2 Jan. 2025
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He’s been with them since the beginning, proving himself as a loyal friend and a valuable mutineer.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
7 Feb. 2025
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“Oppositionist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oppositionist. Accessed 27 May. 2025.
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