revolt (against)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for revolt (against)
Verb
  • Democrats are also hoping to repeal cuts to health care programs that were put in place as part of the GOP spending and tax bill that passed over the summer.
    The NPR Network, NPR, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Often, my opinions or feedback would be passed over in favor of other directions that the team wanted to steer the ship in.
    Blake Simons, IndieWire, 6 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Shutdown talk is nowhere on Wall Street, which gets less animated by local economy stories anyway and has also started to tune out Washington chaos — for better or worse.
    Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Over time, team members tune out their words and begin to question the sincerity of their actions.
    Cheryl Robinson, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The collapse of water security in Iran has been decades in the making and is rooted in a mania for megaprojects—dam building, deep wells, and water transfer schemes—that ignored the fundamentals of hydrology and ecological balance.
    Nik Kowsar, Time, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Pierre LeBrun’s viewpoint Arpon, no doubt the Hughes contract injects a fresh comparable into the discussion that neither the Canadiens nor the Hutson camp can ignore, though using comparables always seems to be in the eye of the beholder.
    Arpon Basu, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
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“Revolt (against).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/revolt%20%28against%29. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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