Thesaurus results for SECESSIONIST

secessionist

noun

as in rebel

a person who thinks that a nation, state, etc., should separate from another and become independent A growing group of secessionists are pushing for the independence of the region.

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Recent Examples of secessionist There are religiously motivated ones targeting both Christians and Muslims, clashes between farmers and herders over dwindling resources, communal rivalries, secessionist groups and ethnic clashes. —

Fortune, 26 Dec. 2025 The peace agreed to at Dayton left Bosnia, or Bosnia and Herzegovina as it is known in full, intact as a country but divided into two entities, Republika Srpska – a secessionist entity proclaimed by ethnonationalist Serbs in January 1992 – and the Bosnian Federation. —

Adis Maksić, The Conversation, 19 Nov. 2025 But the Declaration was also a secessionist document, establishing revolution as a right. —

Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025 This scuttles a compromise, whereby paintings of Lee in his prewar blue Army uniform could remain while the portrait of Lee the secessionist and enslaver came down. —

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As the decade wore on, though, my parents grew up—as happens to young rebels—and my mother, unexpectedly, started thinking about having kids.

— Zayd Ayers Dohrn, New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2026
Their work and mental health were further disrupted when Houthi rebels in Yemen began attacking ships in the Red Sea, with at least nine sailors killed and 11 others held captive for five months.

— Mithil Aggarwal, NBC news, 27 Mar. 2026