resisters

plural of resister

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for resisters
Noun
  • That pressure comes from sitting Republican state lawmakers, led by House Minority Leader Bradley Jones and Senate Minority Leader Bruce Tarr, as well as GOP challengers for Healey’s job.
    Flint McColgan, Boston Herald, 8 Nov. 2025
  • The experience served as an extreme way to learn what Everest requires of its challengers.
    Zoey Lyttle, PEOPLE, 7 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Young Ofelia and her pregnant mother have been brought to live in the countryside, where her brutal stepfather Captain Vidal’s job is to wipe out the remaining rebels camped in the local forest.
    Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 5 Nov. 2025
  • The apparent killing – captured on video shared online by the rebels themselves – took place at a university medical school in El Fasher in Sudan’s western Darfur region after the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) took over the city on Sunday.
    Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 30 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Yet those soldiers and sailors had to stretch across a vast global canvas, leaving fewer than three in ten of them to try to rout the insurgents in North America.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Subsequent reporting showed how Maduro loyalists infiltrated the training camps of the would-be liberators and betrayed their cause, leading to the execution of six leaders and capture of dozens of insurgents.
    Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 7 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Each robot, remotely operated, clinks glasses and gestures in unison, embodying the camaraderie and hope of the musical’s revolutionaries.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Paul’s youth and vigor comes with lots of risk, the work of prior revolutionaries threatened to be set back many years.
    David John Chávez, Mercury News, 28 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • But, first, one of the January 6th insurrectionists, emboldened by his pardon from the President, is now campaigning for reparations.
    Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Fragoso asked of the insurrectionists.
    EW.com, EW.com, 4 Aug. 2025
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
  • 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
  • Notable inmates once held at the jail include Boston Mayor James Michael Curley, anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, civil rights leader Malcolm X and mobster Whitey Bulger, according to records.
    Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 25 Oct. 2025
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“Resisters.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/resisters. Accessed 10 Nov. 2025.

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