as in revolts
open fighting against authority (as one's own government)
the uprising was quickly and brutally suppressed
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Recent Examples of uprisings
This summer alone has seen youth uprisings in Nepal, Angola, and Indonesia, to say nothing of ongoing youth mobilization worldwide for a free Palestine.
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Heather Hunter, The Washington Examiner, 25 Sep. 2025
The persecution worsened more than a decade ago during uprisings that remade the Middle East by toppling dictators — including Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak — but in some places spiraled into civil war.
—Hannah Allam, ProPublica, 10 Sep. 2025
Advertisement The power of social media to foment popular protest is no stranger to Asia, where the internet has been a key driver of popular uprisings that toppled governments in Sri Lanka in 2022 and Bangladesh in 2024, and continue to roil Indonesia today.
—Charlie Campbell, Time, 10 Sep. 2025
The riot in Milwaukee, one of scores of uprisings around the United States during the summer of 1967, triggered a citywide lockdown, brought the National Guard — and laid bare the city's racial divide.
—Chris Foran, jsonline.com, 3 Sep. 2025
The Dalai Lama has been the key figure quelling violence when grassroots dissatisfaction has escalated into episodic uprisings in Tibet.
—Tenzin Dorjee, Foreign Affairs, 1 Sep. 2025
The violence was never indiscriminate, and less than 20 people are believed to have died during the uprisings.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 27 Aug. 2025
In the 1990s Americans dealt with major populist uprisings based on themes that might still sound familiar today.
—Norbert Michel, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
Between the sextiles, student protests in Paris escalated into full-on uprisings.
—Colin Bedell, Them., 20 Aug. 2025
Heather Hunter, The Washington Examiner, 25 Sep. 2025
The persecution worsened more than a decade ago during uprisings that remade the Middle East by toppling dictators — including Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak — but in some places spiraled into civil war.
—Hannah Allam, ProPublica, 10 Sep. 2025
Advertisement The power of social media to foment popular protest is no stranger to Asia, where the internet has been a key driver of popular uprisings that toppled governments in Sri Lanka in 2022 and Bangladesh in 2024, and continue to roil Indonesia today.
—Charlie Campbell, Time, 10 Sep. 2025
The riot in Milwaukee, one of scores of uprisings around the United States during the summer of 1967, triggered a citywide lockdown, brought the National Guard — and laid bare the city's racial divide.
—Chris Foran, jsonline.com, 3 Sep. 2025
The Dalai Lama has been the key figure quelling violence when grassroots dissatisfaction has escalated into episodic uprisings in Tibet.
—Tenzin Dorjee, Foreign Affairs, 1 Sep. 2025
The violence was never indiscriminate, and less than 20 people are believed to have died during the uprisings.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 27 Aug. 2025
In the 1990s Americans dealt with major populist uprisings based on themes that might still sound familiar today.
—Norbert Michel, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
Between the sextiles, student protests in Paris escalated into full-on uprisings.
—Colin Bedell, Them., 20 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for uprisings
Noun
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Peasant revolts have been a thing right alongside revolutionary history the entire time.—
Nikki McCann Ramirez,
Rolling Stone,
22 Sep. 2025
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One can scarcely draw solace from the trajectories of those recent revolts.—
Kapil Komireddi,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Wars that lasted a hundred years, wars between Lutherans and Catholics and between Christians and Muslims, the siege of Constantinople, Mitteleuropa’s peasant rebellions, the lowland’s revolt against Spain, England’s conquest of Ireland.—
Greg Grandin
September 23,
Literary Hub,
23 Sep. 2025
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Police would kill many more people in the rebellions that occasionally broke out afterwards, in Miami and Los Angeles and elsewhere.—
Tom O'Connor,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The president can also legally invoke the military under the Insurrection Act, which allows troops to be deployed in order to curb insurrections.—
Alison Durkee,
Forbes.com,
11 Aug. 2025
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“Uprisings.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uprisings. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.
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