separationist

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for separationist
Noun
  • Then gas deliveries resumed only to Transnistria, the pro-Russian separatist enclave in Moldova’s east.
    Dan Perry, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Sep. 2025
  • At the end of April 2022, the Russian army moved the Kuindzhi Art Museum's entire collection to a museum in the capital of the Donetsk People's Republic, a separatist and politically unrecognized territory annexed by Russia.
    Yegor Mostovshikov, The Dial, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • No Chinese leader will want to suffer the embarrassment of backing down against what the Chinese Communist Party has long framed as a rogue secessionist movement.
    JOEL WUTHNOW, Foreign Affairs, 12 Sep. 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.
    Time, Time, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Nor did Trump mention that attacks by right-wing extremists are more frequent and deadly.
    Laura Yuen, Mercury News, 24 Sep. 2025
  • In Bangladesh, the demise of Hasina’s regime has emboldened religious extremists.
    Kapil Komireddi, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Her first identity was as a Marxist radical.
    Shai Tubali, Big Think, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Upon exposure to light — even regular daylight — punicin forms radicals, giving it properties that vary between light and darkness.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 26 Sep. 2025
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“Separationist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/separationist. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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