RESISTER Synonyms: 28 Similar and Opposite Words

resister

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Definition of resister

as in challenger

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Recent Examples of resister Some may remember back in the bad old days of the 1960s and ‘70s, tax resisters rose up to protest the Vietnam War. — Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 25 Mar. 2026 Tanimoto, as the last living Block 42 resister, carries a singular piece of that history — a controversy and act of resistance within the walls of confinement that illustrated the dilemma faced by people imprisoned by their own country without accusation of a crime. — Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 19 Feb. 2026 These were not distinct but interconnected realms, and the links among them allowed resisters to draw on a wide range of moral and material resources. — Literary Hub, 5 Dec. 2025 Newsom got another fix of national media attention to bolster his image as resister-in-chief to the commander-in-chief, in apparent preparation for a 2028 presidential campaign. — Dan Walters, Oc Register, 23 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for resister

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Noun

Season 42 continues on Tuesday with Caleb Groen returning as champion to face two new challengers.

— USA TODAY Staff, USA Today, 7 July 2026
Minogue’s Republican primary challenger Brian Shortsleeve finished with $63,000 raised.

— Tim Dunn, Boston Herald, 7 July 2026

Definition of challenger

Noun

Mali’s junta has accused Algeria of backing local extremist rebels who are linked to the Muslim militant group al-Qaida.

— ABC News, ABC News, 11 July 2026
That was the year the United States went to war with Spain in Cuba alongside Cuban and Puerto Rican rebels and in the Philippines.

— Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026

Definition of rebel

Noun

Evan Turk’s provocative and emotive illustrations, portraits within this portrait, bring swirling movement and feeling to the story of this defier and definer of the times.

— BostonGlobe.com, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Apr. 2021
Everybody enjoys being thought of as a scofflaw, or a hell-raiser, or defier of authority, especially if such activity happened in the past.

— Karen Martin, Arkansas Online, 29 Nov. 2020

Definition of defier

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Fujimori, 51, is the daughter of late President Alberto Fujimori, who governed the country with an iron fist from 1990 to 2000 and was credited with defeating Maoist insurgents and taming runaway hyperinflation.

— Reuters, NBC news, 4 July 2026
Syria has been without a parliament since the December 2024 offensive by insurgents led by al-Sharaa’s now defunct Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group, which ended the Assad family’s five-decade dynasty.

— Ghaith Alsayed, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026

Definition of insurgent

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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
Or an historian of Polynesian culture giving a lecture about tattooing, or the time Captain Bligh stopped on the atoll to look for the mutineer Fletcher Christian.

— Antonia Quirke, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Jan. 2026

Definition of mutineer

Noun

Yesterday, in an effort to galvanize democratic forces, oppositionists announced the foundation of the Strategic Council of Republicans Inside Iran.

— Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 1 Mar. 2026
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

Definition of oppositionist

Noun

Earlier this week, Swiss anarchist-hacker Maia Arson Crimew leaked information about Dialog, the secretive, invite-only organization cofounded by right-wing tech billionaire Peter Thiel in 2006.

— Harrison Jacobs, ARTnews.com, 18 June 2026
Trump has long invoked the term against a range of political opponents, including peaceful protesters without anarchist-leanings.

— ABC News, ABC News, 16 June 2026

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