RESISTERS Synonyms: 28 Similar and Opposite Words

resisters

noun

plural of resister

as in oppositionists

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Noun

The challengers argue the initiative violates state constitutional privacy protections and anti-discrimination law.

— Jackson Thompson OutKick, FOXNews.com, 11 Nov. 2026
The Tigers and Panthers enter with matching 9-1 records, but both face 8-2 challengers with an opportunity to claim the weekend’s biggest prizes.

— Wilton Jackson, AJC.com, 10 Nov. 2026

Definition of challengers

Noun

The rebels made a lightning advance capturing much of Yemen's Red Sea coast and strategic islands in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.

— AHMED HATEM, Arkansas Online, 8 Nov. 2026
Ethiopia’s Foreign Ministry rejected similar Sudanese accusations in a May 5 statement, calling them baseless, and accused Sudan of supporting rebels in its northern Tigray region.

— ABC News, ABC News, 4 Nov. 2026

Definition of rebels

Noun

Here the three were, as what some would call a band of outsiders, telling a story about these insurgents to the distinguished Fleet Street, where the most esteemed newspapers like The Daily Mirror were published.

— Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 10 Nov. 2026
But establishments don’t fade away so easily — and insurgents don’t automatically shun them.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2026

Definition of insurgents

Noun

Like his fellow revolutionaries, Jefferson recoiled from such aspects of empire, past and present.

— Jackson Lears, Harpers Magazine, 27 Oct. 2026
But, even then, American socialists walked a fine line—they were considered too radical for the mainstream and a mere bourgeois affectation by committed class revolutionaries.

— Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2026

Definition of revolutionaries

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Analysts say the clashes at the Base 101 at the Niamey international airport could have gone either way because of the mutineers’ determination and large numbers until the Russian troops stepped in.

— Chinedu Asadu, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2026
The fate of the mutineers was not immediately clear and authorities did not disclose any charges against them.

— ABC News, ABC News, 30 Aug. 2026

Definition of mutineers

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The situation on the ground is unpredictable because the students, communists, anarchists, anti-Israel and other protesters that have collaborated to make France a worse place to visit in recent days might do something no one expects.

— Armando Salguero OutKick, FOXNews.com, 20 Oct. 2026
The effects of these publications were hardly only theoretical, as Italian anarchists exerted a powerful influence on labor strikes.

— Ed Simon, JSTOR Daily, 7 Oct. 2026

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