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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
Russian oppositionists in exile face nearly insurmountable challenges.
—Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 18 Sep. 2024
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
Russian oppositionists in exile face nearly insurmountable challenges.
—Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 18 Sep. 2024
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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Arizona-Utah local president Amanda Melby undoubtedly won her race, also against two challengers, with 120 votes (nearly 70% support).—
Katie Campione,
Deadline,
4 Sep. 2025
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Districts 2 and 7 do not have primary elections since respective incumbents Malcolm Graham and Ed Driggs do not have challengers whose names will appear on the ballot.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
3 Sep. 2025
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The New York Times in 2015 reported that hundreds of Colombian mercenaries had been sent to Yemen to fight against the Houthi rebels, hired directly — and in secret — by the UAE.—
Rebecca Johns,
Miami Herald,
6 Sep. 2025
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Tapping into your inner rebel as of late, Sagittarius?—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
6 Sep. 2025
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This might enable a mission which, for example, a Viper is located covertly next to a safe house known to be used by insurgents.—
David Hambling,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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As the occupation wore on, the Iraqis became proficient at building roadside bombs in basements, garages, and other insurgent test kitchens spread across Baghdad and Anbar.—
Graeme Wood,
The Atlantic,
2 Sep. 2025
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The answer is that France at this time was attempting to heal its wartime wounds, papering over the cracks in the social fabric that had opened up during the German Occupation and positioning itself as a nation of resisters, in which collaborators had been few and aberrant.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
30 July 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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The uniform of the conformist — sports shirt, cardigan, tennis shoes — is as easily recognized as that of the recusant — dirty white T, sideburns, two days’ growth of beard.—
Chris Jones,
chicagotribune.com,
15 July 2019
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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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As the head of China’s Nationalist government, Chiang and his party were trying to establish control in a nation divided among revolutionists, nationalists, Indigenous warlords, and a developing communist army and government.—
Susan Tate Ankeny,
Smithsonian Magazine,
23 Apr. 2024
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Throughout the late nineteenth century and much of the twentieth, Jewish socialists, liberals, anarchists, and Zionists all saw their respective political programs as offering a remedy for anti-Semitism.—
Daniel May,
Harpers Magazine,
20 Aug. 2025
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There’s a character who is an anarchist, and anarchism becomes a thread through the whole book.—
Michael Schaub,
Oc Register,
11 Aug. 2025
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The film was One Battle After Another, Anderson’s high-octane adaptation of Vineland, Thomas Pynchon’s anarchic 1990 novel about a crew of former leftist revolutionaries — the French 75 — living in a slightly more dystopian version of present-day America.—
Seija Rankin,
HollywoodReporter,
4 Sep. 2025
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The plot centers around a former revolutionary who must reunite with old associates to find his missing daughter.—
David Caraccio,
Sacbee.com,
4 Sep. 2025
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“Oppositionist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oppositionist. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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