as in deserter
a person who abandons a cause or organization usually without right
a band of renegades who had deserted their infantry units and were making their way to Mexico
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Recent Examples of renegade
Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 14 Feb. 2025
Sports Illustrated even called for UM to disband what was seen then as a renegade football program led by a coach playing by his own rules.
—Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 5 Mar. 2025
Eric Cortellessa, TIME, 18 Mar. 2025
Apocalypse Now, which won two Oscars, followed a U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam who is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who has reportedly gone completely mad.
—Carly Thomas, HollywoodReporter, 28 Mar. 2025
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Noun
The renegades were attempting to void the ACC’s grant-of-rights agreement, which would clear them to join the SEC or Big Ten.
—Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 14 Feb. 2025
Sports Illustrated even called for UM to disband what was seen then as a renegade football program led by a coach playing by his own rules.
—Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 5 Mar. 2025
Adjective
Behind the scenes, he’s been even more aggressive, courting members of Congress to join his renegade mission.
—Eric Cortellessa, TIME, 18 Mar. 2025
Apocalypse Now, which won two Oscars, followed a U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam who is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who has reportedly gone completely mad.
—Carly Thomas, HollywoodReporter, 28 Mar. 2025
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Russia is also reported to have forcibly sent hundreds of its military deserters to the front line in Ukraine.—
Josh Hammer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 Apr. 2025
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Its return hearkens back to other periods in American history when firing squads were more common, such as the colonial era and the Civil War, when it was used against deserters.—
Tim Stelloh,
NBC News,
7 Mar. 2025
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Stephen Fry, Ted Lasso star Nick Mohammed and singer Paloma Faith are just three of the 19 celebs entering the castle to sniff out the traitors from the faithfuls in the first celebrity season of the smash hit on the BBC.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
13 May 2025
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The former sees the latter as a pro-European traitor and а success symbol born of the imperial decline that Soviet-era bureaucrats have yet to accept.—
Nick Paton Walsh,
CNN Money,
12 May 2025
Adjective
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However, the modern shopping mall mix is a bit different than the mall’s first heyday, with more discount retailers and nontraditional experiential retailers including medispas and trampoline parks.—
Megan Poinski,
Forbes.com,
19 May 2025
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The defense will aim to frame Ms. Ventura as a willing and even enthusiastic participant in a troubled, nontraditional romantic arrangement.—
Joe Coscarelli,
New York Times,
13 May 2025
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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
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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
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“Renegade.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/renegade. Accessed 24 May. 2025.
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