as in to mutiny (against)
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Brown climbed the ladder to haul in a pass over the middle from Madsen, beating his defender in the air acrobatically before smashing into the end zone turf for the catch and a 33-14 lead.—
Shaun Goodwin,
Idaho Statesman,
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This plan was eventually passed over in favor of the Space Shuttle Program, and the term STS was used to refer to the orbital shuttle vehicle – the only part of the IPP to be realized.—
Matthew S Williams,
Interesting Engineering,
25 Sep. 2025
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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
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Over time, team members tune out their words and begin to question the sincerity of their actions.—
Cheryl Robinson,
Forbes.com,
19 Sep. 2025
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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
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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 6 Oct. 2025.
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