RECUSANTS Synonyms: 28 Similar and Opposite Words

recusants

noun

plural of recusant

as in resisters

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Noun

Tens of thousands have been killed and millions displaced as pro-democracy groups and ethnic rebels battle the military across the country.

— Helen Regan, CNN Money, 3 Aug. 2026
Conflict began in the country in 2013 after mostly Muslim rebels seized power and forced then President François Bozizé to quit.

— ABC News, ABC News, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of rebels

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In an extraordinarily fast ruling, the justices heard arguments on both cases last week, took a brief recess, and then immediately made an oral ruling from the bench in favor of the challengers.

— Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 5 Aug. 2026
Missouri State Auditor Missouri State Auditor Scott Fitzpatrick has both Republican and Democratic challengers in his bid for a second term.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 5 Aug. 2026

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Pitcairn Island Pitcairn is British Overseas Territory in the South Pacific that was famously born from the last refuge of the Bounty mutineers, who arrived in 1789 with a small company of Tahitians.

— Scott Laird, Travel + Leisure, 31 July 2026
Pitcairn is well-known as the island on which Fletcher Christian and other British mutineers from the HMS Bounty took refuge after the 1789 events that toppled Capt.

— Matthew Lee, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2026

Definition of mutineers

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The attack occurred in Mastung, a district in Balochistan province where separatist insurgents have stepped up attacks on security forces and civilians in recent months.

— ABC News, ABC News, 23 July 2026
One of the insurgents, a doctoral student in sociology named Darializa Avila Chevalier, is far more emblematic of the DSA’s radicalism.

— James Kirchick, The Atlantic, 21 July 2026

Definition of insurgents

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