Thesaurus results for TRAITORS

traitors

noun

plural of traitor

as in betrayers

one who betrays a trust or an allegiance accused by her family of being a traitor when she sold their traditionally animal-friendly business to a competitor known to use animals for testing its products

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Recent Examples of traitors When news of Israel’s secret outposts in Iraq’s desert emerged, Iraqis admonished their leaders as traitors, and the boisterous militiamen affiliated with the government as impostors for allowing their land to be colonized by an enemy. —

Nabil Salih, Time, 26 May 2026 The president has spent a decade calling his rivals communists and traitors, among other hyperbolic insults. —

Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic, 28 Apr. 2026 Military culture is fiercely self-protective, and soldiers who criticize it are usually treated as traitors. —

Literary Hub, 28 Apr. 2026 It’s populated by craven, cowardly traitors. —

Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 25 Mar. 2026 Having been labeled traitors in Iran and following reports that some of their families had been threatened, the players then sang before their other two matches. —

Don Riddell, CNN Money, 17 Mar. 2026 The setting, characters and costumes place viewers squarely in a whimsical world, though that all gets starkly juxtaposed against real human nature when Cummings offers the players an antidote that will save them should they be revealed as the traitors’ secret sacrifice. —

Tiney Ricciardi, Denver Post, 3 Mar. 2026 Rinna was selected as one of the traitors on the show, but she was voted off. —

Minyvonne Burke, NBC news, 26 Feb. 2026 Then the faithful had to guess how the traitors answered to earn money for the prize pot while also analyzing the answers for clues. —

Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 12 Feb. 2026

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Noun

Those serpents include six rattlesnake species and non-rattlers, such as the Copperhead, Water Moccasin (or Cottonmouth) and Eastern Coral snakes.

— Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2026
Laocoön and His Sons, an exquisite marble sculpture of the legendary Trojan priest writhing in agony as he’s attacked by sea-serpents, was first unearthed in the early sixteenth-century, the only missing piece his right arm.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Feb. 2026