resisters

Definition of resistersnext
plural of resister

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Noun
  • But 2026 isn’t 2022, with years of GOP control giving challengers clearer lines of attack.
    Karen Brooks Harper, Dallas Morning News, 10 Jan. 2026
  • Quigley has filed for re-election for his current seat in Congress and faces four challengers in the Democratic primary election in March.
    Charlie De Mar, CBS News, 9 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Meanwhile, rebels in 2024 overthrew Syria’s Bashar Assad after a yearslong, bloody war in which Iran backed his rule.
    Jon Gambrell, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2026
  • The Season 2 finale of Percy Jackson and the Olympians saw Percy (Walker Scobell), Annabeth (Leah Sava Jeffries), Grover (Aryan Simhadri) mobilize the rest of the demigods against Luke (Charlie Bushnell) and his ragtag crew of rebels working to resurrect Kronos.
    Katie Campione, Deadline, 24 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Those efforts, combined with security operations against both Sunni insurgents and Shiite militias, weakened al-Qaeda between 2007 and 2009, allowing al-Maliki to consolidate power.
    Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Israel — home to more Holocaust survivors than any other country — marks its remembrance day, Yom HaShoah, on the anniversary of the April 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, emphasizing the heroism of the Jewish insurgents who resisted the Nazi terror.
    Vanessa Gera, Chicago Tribune, 27 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Quarters honoring national heroes from the abolitionist, suffragette and civil rights eras have been scrapped and will be replaced by the nation's early White pioneers and revolutionaries.
    Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 27 Jan. 2026
  • All three play key roles in the library scene—in which Walker’s revolutionaries, seeking justice for a racial atrocity, hold Morgan’s collection hostage—but none had visited the real thing, on Thirty-sixth Street.
    Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • People's Liberation Army troops under Mao's control either ignored the violence or offered support to the insurrectionists while the country descended into lawlessness and retribution.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Stephen Miller is now calling Minnesota protesters insurrectionists, while the January 6th mobs were considered peaceful protesters and tourists.
    DP Opinion, Denver Post, 21 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Language purists like to remind anyone who will listen that decimation actually means the slaughter of one in ten people, and was the military punishment wielded by the Roman army against deserters and mutineers.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • When the violence fails to stop after the formal Purge ends, two families must band together to escape the anarchists by crossing into Mexico, but with the United States under siege, surviving will be much more difficult than just making it through one deadly night.
    Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Dec. 2025
  • The press has cast stones at One Battle After Another for its $140 million production cost, saying a car chase movie about anarchists should never have cost that much.
    Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 28 Oct. 2025
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“Resisters.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/resisters. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.

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