abandoner

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for abandoner
Noun
  • Opponents aren’t just wrong anymore — they’re painted as traitors or existential threats.
    Marly Berlin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The show features reality TV stars and celebrity contestants who must play a game similar to Werewolf or Mafia and figure out who the traitors are among the group.
    Rosa Escandon, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • President Abraham Lincoln called on state militias at the outset of the Civil War to help in fighting Confederate turncoats to the South.
    Alana Wise, NPR, 21 Aug. 2025
  • The turncoats are John Hannah, Biggie Munn, Bo Schembechler and Burt Smith.
    Joe Rexrode, New York Times, 9 July 2025
Noun
  • Improved living standards can support stronger mental health, sharper cognitive performance, lower dropout risk and higher satisfaction.
    Kira Golenko, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • In 2012, at just 18 years old, Kirk, a college dropout, co-founded Turning Point USA to organize and rally young people into the conservative populist movement.
    Eric Levenson, CNN Money, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • But in a region being fought over by a patchwork of anti-junta rebel groups, the military and pro-military militia – and given the widespread distrust of the Rohingya – information on where exactly his family are, or what will become of them, has not been forthcoming.
    Esha Mitra, CNN Money, 14 Sep. 2025
  • By the finale, the galactic chessboard is crowded with players—emperors, rebels, prophets, impostors—but as Hari Seldon (Jared Harris) warned in the very first episode, the center cannot hold.
    JP Mangalindan, Time, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • This new generation of outlets has also begun to shape the political conversation on the left, helping boost insurgent challengers to the Democratic establishment.
    Max Tani, semafor.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Perfect for pondering what’s more human than human or planning insurgent actions against a cruel imperial apparatus.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Few among the bureaucratic, business, and even military elites denounced the mutineers, exposing limited support for Putin.
    ANDREI YAKOVLEV, Foreign Affairs, 16 May 2025
  • He’s been with them since the beginning, proving himself as a loyal friend and a valuable mutineer.
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 7 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Erdogan, meanwhile, lambasted Kilicdaroglu as a quisling who is in cahoots with the West and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, a Kurdish separatist group that both Ankara and Washington consider a terrorist entity.
    Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2023
Noun
  • It was left to Keys to try to corral the insurrectionists, who were day-drinking in the lobby.
    Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Kinzinger goes on to say that when the insurrectionist is one of their own, the rules are different.
    Tom Jurkowsky, Baltimore Sun, 11 Aug. 2025
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“Abandoner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/abandoner. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.

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