subversives

plural of subversive

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Recent Examples of subversives Loners lashing out America has had genuine subversives and left-wing terror networks in the past. Michelle Goldberg, Mercury News, 27 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for subversives
Noun
  • The rebels also cited the need to take out the massive scam operations as justification for their offensive – which analysts say China likely greenlit.
    Helen Regan, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The rebels, led by Deepak Rauniyar and Binod Paudel, fired off a scathing letter to the Academy demanding a full investigation and threatening to blow up Nepal’s Oscar dreams entirely.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 27 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Labels matter Security analysts say the situation in Haiti continues to defy clear international legal characterization and the choice of labels – crisis, armed conflict, gangs, terrorist groups, armed groups, criminal groups, insurgents – carries significant legal and humanitarian implications.
    Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 26 Sep. 2025
  • This might enable a mission which, for example, a Viper is located covertly next to a safe house known to be used by insurgents.
    David Hambling, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Yet through Bob, Anderson finds his way into this story in a way that feels self-reflective and in conversation with a whole generation of coulda been revolutionaries.
    Richard Newby, HollywoodReporter, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Creating the technology for revolutionaries operating in an amorphous present, such as the scanner device, was another fascinating challenge.
    Pat Saperstein, Variety, 27 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Prosecutors said members of that group engaged in digital extremism with the explicit goal of dismantling societal order, much in the way the anarchists of the pre-internet era used to operate.
    Jesus Mesa, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
  • The attack, which resulted in considerable destruction and numerous fatalities, remains unsolved; however, it is widely attributed to the actions of Italian anarchists.
    Lorenzino Estrada, AZCentral.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • So many traitors, smooth operators.
    Megan McCluskey, Time, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The stars play a game in which a group of ‘faithful’ players must detect and eliminate ‘traitors,’ who each evening banish others from the competition.
    Jake Kanter, Deadline, 22 Sep. 2025

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“Subversives.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subversives. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.

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