recusants

plural of recusant

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for recusants
Noun
  • By 2018, Assad had control of Damascus and Aleppo, and the rebels were confined to a jihadist ministate in Idlib.
    Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Yemen’s Houthi rebels on Saturday vowed to take revenge for the killing of their prime minister and other political leaders by Israeli airstrikes earlier this week.
    Eyad Kourdi, CNN Money, 30 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Sand is considered the front-runner in a Democratic primary, which is likely to consist of additional challengers with an incumbent like Reynolds out of the picture.
    Rachel Schilke, The Washington Examiner, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Brown faces several primary challengers this year.
    Nick Sullivan, Charlotte Observer, 6 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • The state Republicans have routinely witnessed battles between far-right insurgents who in recent years have complained the party isn’t Trumpy enough and the financial institutional wing that has long been the GOP establishment and funded the party for decades.
    Rick Pearson, Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Such was the importance placed on the tree for mobilizing resistance that in 1775, it was cut down by British soldiers to demoralize the revolutionaries.
    Ellen Walker, JSTOR Daily, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • It was left to Keys to try to corral the insurrectionists, who were day-drinking in the lobby.
    Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Fragoso asked of the insurrectionists.
    EW.com, EW.com, 4 Aug. 2025
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“Recusants.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/recusants. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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