RESISTER Synonyms: 28 Similar and Opposite Words

resister

noun

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

All 16 Florida House incumbents facing primary challengers survived Tuesday, as most state legislative races now turn toward the November general election, where Democrats have fielded challengers in nearly every contest.

— CBS Miami Team, CBS News, 19 Aug. 2026
The two other statewide candidates drawing state matching dollars — Attorney General James Uthmeier and his Democratic challenger Jose Javier Rodriguez — will bypass the primary.

— Jim Turner, Miami Herald, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of challenger

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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

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Relations between the Taliban and Pakistan — initially their most important partner — are tense, as Islamabad accuses Kabul of supporting Pakistani insurgents.

— Reuters, NBC news, 15 Aug. 2026
An insurgent socialist wing, led by New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, has toppled several incumbent Democrats this midterm cycle.

— Mabinty Quarshie, The Washington Examiner, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of insurgent

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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 mutineer

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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

Central Florida’s anarchist, tattooed knockoff of Buc-ee’s beaver mascot is no more.

— Cristóbal Reyes, The Orlando Sentinel, 12 Aug. 2026
Indeed, antisemitisms prove that a society can hold contradictory images simultaneously, such as the fact that the Jews are both anarchists out to destroy capitalism as well as capitalists out to exploit the working class.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 24 July 2026

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