Thesaurus results for SUBVERSIVES

subversives

noun

plural of subversive

as in rebels

someone who tries to overthrow or undermine a governing power They were outted as subversives and exiled from the country.

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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

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Noun

He was convicted in 2009 of human rights abuses in the fight against the rebels, and later of corruption charges.

— ABC News, ABC News, 3 July 2026
He was convicted in 2009 of human rights abuses in the fight against the rebels and, later on, corruption charges.

— Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 3 July 2026

Definition of rebels

Noun

The establishment’s theory of the case has always been that popular insurgents are too risky, too unpolished, too outside the lane.

— Tad Devine, Fortune, 7 July 2026
Fujimori, 51, is the daughter of late President Alberto Fujimori, who governed the country with an iron fist from 1990 to 2000 and was credited with defeating Maoist insurgents and taming runaway hyperinflation.

— Reuters, NBC news, 4 July 2026

Definition of insurgents

Noun

Or was July 4, 1776, for the revolutionaries who founded the US, actually an undistinguished day?

— Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 3 July 2026
Trade the tricorn hats, bonnets and homespun shirts for flip flops, sneakers and soccer jerseys, and the intrepid revolutionaries of 1776 would have looked a lot like the people of 2026.

— Katherine Ott, The Conversation, 2 July 2026

Definition of revolutionaries

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In July 1936, anarchists set fire to the church’s crypt and broke into the architect’s workshop before destroying many of his plans and plaster models.

— CNN Money, CNN Money, 8 June 2026
But divining Gaudí's intentions has required detective work, because during the Spanish Civil War, anarchists protesting the Catholic Church set fire to parts of the structure, and smashed Gaudí's models into 8,000 pieces.

— Seth Doane, CBS News, 7 June 2026

Definition of anarchists

Noun

Just one more thing … this organization does not tolerate traitors!

— Gina Kalsi, PEOPLE, 24 June 2026
Keep your actual and suspected traitors closer – the non-loyal, uncommitted, secretive, suspicious, dishonest, deceitful, chronically negative, and regularly undermining.

— Peter D. Banko, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026

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