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Noun

Those who opposed the coup, like Tom Keith's grandfather, are still often thought of as traitors, just as his distant relatives are.

— Lee Cowan, CBS News, 12 July 2026
Irina and Raskova will enjoy a long, successful professional collaboration, purging Star City of traitors and threats and bringing down Petrovsky in a plot that leads to his ending his life in ignominy, having confessed to crimes against the state.

— Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 10 July 2026

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Pop culture fanatics probably already know about his 18-year-old twins with his second mega-famous wife and frequent collaborator, Jennifer Lopez.

— Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 21 July 2026
The soundtrack—by the frequent Hans Zimmer collaborator David Fleming—is a delight, a polyphonic mood board of ghost-clangs, spooky bassoons, lyrical electro-motifs, and sighing sea themes.

— James Parker, The Atlantic, 20 July 2026

Definition of collaborator

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Kristen Stewart loves to be a little subversive with her fashion choices.

— Juliana Ukiomogbe, InStyle, 23 June 2026
The seamless integration of old and new feels stealthy, and a touch subversive, a doubling-down on the museum’s approach to time as nonlinear, sinuous and delightfully slippery.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2026

Definition of subversive

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The Sox couldn’t take advantage of their opportunities, falling 1-0 in front of a sellout crowd of 41,775 at Rogers Centre.

— LaMond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 19 July 2026
The match remained 1-1 until the 86th minute when NWSL rookie defender Natalie Means scored the match winner for Denver, giving the Colorado club their first win in their new home before a sellout crowd of 12,372 fans.

— Melanie Anzidei, New York Times, 18 July 2026

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The Conservatives, currently led by Kemi Badenoch, slammed Braverman following her defection, characterizing her as an inevitable turncoat and questioning her mental faculties.

— Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 26 Jan. 2026
But the result is that a fair number of former Sanders allies or staffers have turned out to be MAGA turncoats, cranks, or washed out of politics altogether.

— Ryan Cooper, Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2026

Definition of turncoat

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It is aided in its unceasing efforts to gain more power and undermine our institutions and rights by a Congress in which quislings claim a majority.

— Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 21 Mar. 2026
But the president's new FTC chair, Andrew Ferguson, is an outspoken Big Tech critic on X and is signaling the panel won't be stacked with pro-industry quislings.

— Marc Caputo, Axios, 10 Feb. 2025

Definition of quisling

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Then go ahead and depict the country’s prime minister as the betrayer of Christ.

— David Frum, The Atlantic, 21 May 2026
Lesch plays the savior’s anguished betrayer not as an intellectual equal who fiercely debates him and loses all patience with the movement.

— Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 3 May 2026

Definition of betrayer

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The other six co-conspirators were Abraham Alvarez, 31, of Nebraska; Daniel Eskridge, 32, of Missouri; William Falkner, 21, of Washington; Jordan Rincker, 28, of Missouri; Bryan Roa, 25, of California; and Michael Thomas, 32, of California.

— David Zimmermann, The Washington Examiner, 16 July 2026
Numerous victims have said that their names and other sensitive information were not properly redacted in the files and criticized Blanche and the department for failing to investigate Epstein’s potential co-conspirators.

— Ben Wieder, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2026

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