resister

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Recent Examples of resister In the 1940s and ’50s, room-sized mainframe computers relied on thousands of vacuum tubes, resisters, capacitors and more. Gerui Wang, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025 Collaborators often became resisters, and vice versa. Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025 That approach was dumb from the outset, and the election blew it up in resisters’ faces. Clive Crook, Twin Cities, 8 Feb. 2025 As a symbol of the Shoah, Auschwitz obscures the courage of Jewish resisters. Martin Kimel, Baltimore Sun, 26 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for resister
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Noun
  • Sora 2 is an AI video generator, a TikTok challenger, and a social network all in one.
    Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Primary challengers enter the fray The backlash against Cunningham’s votes and comments extends into the upcoming 2026 election cycle.
    Mary Ramsey October 3, Charlotte Observer, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Alcalá has pleaded guilty to collaborating with Colombia’s FARC rebels.
    Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The rebels also cited the need to take out the massive scam operations as justification for their offensive – which analysts say China likely greenlit.
    Helen Regan, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The uniform of the conformist — sports shirt, cardigan, tennis shoes — is as easily recognized as that of the recusant — dirty white T, sideburns, two days’ growth of beard.
    Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 15 July 2019
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
Noun
  • Jahmai Jones’ two-run single in the top of the fifth proved the difference, punching Detroit’s ticket to the playoffs and ensuring the Tigers would go into Game 162 with a chance to claw back the AL Central title from the insurgent Cleveland Guardians on the final day of the regular season.
    Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Labels matter Security analysts say the situation in Haiti continues to defy clear international legal characterization and the choice of labels – crisis, armed conflict, gangs, terrorist groups, armed groups, criminal groups, insurgents – carries significant legal and humanitarian implications.
    Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 26 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Few among the bureaucratic, business, and even military elites denounced the mutineers, exposing limited support for Putin.
    ANDREI YAKOVLEV, Foreign Affairs, 16 May 2025
  • He’s been with them since the beginning, proving himself as a loyal friend and a valuable mutineer.
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 7 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Deporting supposed gang members and Hamas supporters without due process may violate any number of statutes, but forcing oppositionists to defend these people’s rights allows the administration to paint them as defending their ideas.
    Garry Kasparov, The Atlantic, 17 Apr. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • By contrast, left-wing extremist incidents, including those tied to anarchist or environmental movements, have made up about 10 to 15 percent of incidents and less than 5 percent of fatalities.
    Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Prosecutors said members of that group engaged in digital extremism with the explicit goal of dismantling societal order, much in the way the anarchists of the pre-internet era used to operate.
    Jesus Mesa, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025

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“Resister.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/resister. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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