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Recent Examples of treasonous
The perpetrators who drove the chaos at the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol building have been duly tried and convicted for their terrible and treasonous acts.
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Laura Washington, Chicago Tribune, 5 Feb. 2025
By 1917 in Russia, housewives were marching in city streets to protest a lack of food, peasants were seizing land, and many Russians saw the czarist government as irrelevant, even treasonous.
—Margaret MacMillan, The Atlantic, 30 Apr. 2025
The rift deepened after Trump left office, with the then-former president describing his former Joint Chiefs chairman as treasonous for calling a senior Chinese military official to defuse fears of a potential U.S. attack.
—Davis Winkie, USA TODAY, 20 Jan. 2025
By then, no official blacklist existed but she was routinely assailed by right wingers as a treasonous ingrate and tool of Hanoi.
—Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Feb. 2025
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Laura Washington, Chicago Tribune, 5 Feb. 2025
By 1917 in Russia, housewives were marching in city streets to protest a lack of food, peasants were seizing land, and many Russians saw the czarist government as irrelevant, even treasonous.
—Margaret MacMillan, The Atlantic, 30 Apr. 2025
The rift deepened after Trump left office, with the then-former president describing his former Joint Chiefs chairman as treasonous for calling a senior Chinese military official to defuse fears of a potential U.S. attack.
—Davis Winkie, USA TODAY, 20 Jan. 2025
By then, no official blacklist existed but she was routinely assailed by right wingers as a treasonous ingrate and tool of Hanoi.
—Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for treasonous
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There's a delicious whodunit aspect to it, too, as the list of five potentially traitorous suspects includes the operative's own high-profile wife (Cate Blanchett).—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
4 July 2025
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Michael Fassbender plays a British intelligence officer tasked with finding who leaked a top-secret software program and betrayed their country, and the list of five potentially traitorous suspects includes his own high-profile wife (Cate Blanchett).—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
10 May 2025
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That was the extent of her involvement in the special counsel’s investigation, which led to more than 1,500 people being charged and most convicted of trespassing, vandalism, assault or seditious conspiracy.—
Jay Weaver
July 14,
Miami Herald,
14 July 2025
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Four of the men were found guilty of seditious conspiracy, while Pezzola was convicted of other serious felonies.—
Kaelan Deese,
The Washington Examiner,
6 June 2025
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At least three people were killed in the treacherous flood waters streaming through a mountain village in New Mexico, which also knocked an entire home from its foundations and then swept it away.—
Jessica Schladebeck,
New York Daily News,
9 July 2025
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The search has been complicated by treacherous terrain, and the fact that crews are looking for an Army veteran skilled in wilderness survival who had a three-day head start.—
Cindy Von Quednow,
CNN Money,
7 July 2025
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“Treasonous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/treasonous. Accessed 23 Jul. 2025.
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