as in rebellions
open fighting against authority (as one's own government)
soon the revolt had spread to every corner of the country
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as in disgusts
to cause to feel disgust
the jury appeared to be revolted by the grisly details of the murder
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as in rebels
to rise up against established authority
the students practically revolted when the school cancelled the championship football game
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Recent Examples of revolts
CBS News,
9 May 2026
Then came revolts and revolutions in Ireland, the Swiss cantons, the Rhineland, the Netherlands, the Italian states, and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
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Daniel Immerwahr,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
The fiercest tax revolts are brewing at the local level.
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Annie Lowrey,
The Atlantic,
28 Apr. 2026
During the Arab Spring revolts of the early 2010s, Cairo was routinely racked by blackouts, and Mansour teamed up with an architect friend to experiment with rooftop solar on houses.
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Tim McDonnell,
semafor.com,
14 Apr. 2026
After enduring a series of mini-revolts from fans criticizing last spring’s casting announcement and December’s first-look trailer, Survivor 50 has gotten off to an encouraging start.
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Joe Reid,
Vulture,
1 Apr. 2026
Almost immediately Rome was plunged into a series of wars, revolts, and plagues.
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Encyclopedia Britannica,
11 Mar. 2026
Continue reading … THINK AGAIN — New 'microgeneration' of students revolts against 'cringy' campus wokeness.
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FOXNews.com,
13 Feb. 2026
The royal government was also known as a dictatorship for banning political parties, suppressing revolts and political opposition, controlling the press and having its own secret police force called SAVAK.
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Nollyanne Delacruz,
Mercury News,
10 Feb. 2026
Noun
Starmer also has angered supporters with attempts to cut welfare spending, some of which were reversed after Labour revolts.
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CBS News,
9 May 2026
Then came revolts and revolutions in Ireland, the Swiss cantons, the Rhineland, the Netherlands, the Italian states, and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
—
Daniel Immerwahr,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
The fiercest tax revolts are brewing at the local level.
—
Annie Lowrey,
The Atlantic,
28 Apr. 2026
During the Arab Spring revolts of the early 2010s, Cairo was routinely racked by blackouts, and Mansour teamed up with an architect friend to experiment with rooftop solar on houses.
—
Tim McDonnell,
semafor.com,
14 Apr. 2026
After enduring a series of mini-revolts from fans criticizing last spring’s casting announcement and December’s first-look trailer, Survivor 50 has gotten off to an encouraging start.
—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
1 Apr. 2026
Almost immediately Rome was plunged into a series of wars, revolts, and plagues.
—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
11 Mar. 2026
Continue reading … THINK AGAIN — New 'microgeneration' of students revolts against 'cringy' campus wokeness.
—
FOXNews.com,
13 Feb. 2026
The royal government was also known as a dictatorship for banning political parties, suppressing revolts and political opposition, controlling the press and having its own secret police force called SAVAK.
—
Nollyanne Delacruz,
Mercury News,
10 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for revolts
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Most Southern states soon followed with anti-literacy laws of their own between 1740 and 1834, in the hopes of preventing any further slave rebellions.
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Rhaenyra is suddenly dealing with internal criticism, possible rebellions, subjects spray-painting nasty stuff on the walls and self-doubt.
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That’s what really disgusts me.
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Masahiro Motoki — the Oscar-winning star of Departures — plays a lord who rebels against warlord Oda Nobunaga and barricades himself inside Arioka Castle, only to face a string of unsolved murders within its walls.
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Set against the backdrop of the 1998 São Paulo World Cup between Brazil and France, Amarela follows 14-year-old Erika Oguihara (Melissa Uehara), a Japanese Brazilian sports fanatic who rebels against her family’s more Japanese cultural traditions.
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In the late sixteenth century, the Spanish Hapsburgs, the Catholic dynasty that ruled the Netherlands, sent in an army to crush a series of Calvinist uprisings.
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While Spielberg thinks such an event would bring the world together, Koepp believes there could be mass uprisings against scientists, government officials or even religious leaders who kept this information hidden.
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Sigmund Freud believed that every crush has a strand of disgust, that people are attracted to what repulses them.
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Charlie, though, is trying to keep them out of a country that thoroughly repulses him.
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There were rebellions, insurrections and an Appian Way lined with crucifixions.
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But the regime, besieged by insurrections across the country, abandoned Manbij.
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Alcohol kills 178,000 Americans each year and sickens countless more.
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Just thinking about it totally sickens me.
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That mobility occasionally allowed for communication and coordination during mutinies.
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This includes leader assassination attempts by political opponents or lone wolves or mutinies by disgruntled soldiers who might even march on the presidential palace to demand higher pay, promotions or other policy concessions.
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“Revolts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/revolts. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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