as in revolutionary
a person who believes that government and laws are not necessary
The anarchists decided to move to a remote location that was, for all intents and purposes, lawless.
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Recent Examples of anarchist
The problem is the unhinged reaction to ICE’s presence by leftist radicals who have a lot in common with your average anarchist.
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Chris Roemer, Baltimore Sun, 22 Jan. 2026
When the violence fails to stop after the formal Purge ends, two families must band together to escape the anarchists by crossing into Mexico, but with the United States under siege, surviving will be much more difficult than just making it through one deadly night.
—Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Dec. 2025
For instance, few locals know this was once the location of anarchist activist and writer Emma Goldman's ice cream shop.
—Mary Lebus, Cincinnati Enquirer, 15 Dec. 2025
But two people briefed on the arrest told MS NOW that the suspect has been linked to statements that show support for an anarchist ideology.
—Kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 4 Dec. 2025
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Chris Roemer, Baltimore Sun, 22 Jan. 2026
When the violence fails to stop after the formal Purge ends, two families must band together to escape the anarchists by crossing into Mexico, but with the United States under siege, surviving will be much more difficult than just making it through one deadly night.
—Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Dec. 2025
For instance, few locals know this was once the location of anarchist activist and writer Emma Goldman's ice cream shop.
—Mary Lebus, Cincinnati Enquirer, 15 Dec. 2025
But two people briefed on the arrest told MS NOW that the suspect has been linked to statements that show support for an anarchist ideology.
—Kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 4 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for anarchist
Noun
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With that mental reframing, the American (and then French and other) revolutionaries changed not just their own country, but the world.—
Andreas Kluth,
Mercury News,
10 Feb. 2026
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In this topsy-turvy world, Erdoğan was the revolutionary, and the representatives of leftist institutions and unions were the rotten elites.—
Kaya Genç,
The Dial,
3 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Lucas’s focus on getting paid brings him in for the book’s harshest criticism; Fischer casts him as a rebel turned sellout.—
Michael O’Donnell,
The Atlantic,
10 Feb. 2026
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On the other hand, Bennu is the rebel — its glycine likely originated in frozen ice exposed to harsh radiation in the outer reaches of the solar system.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
9 Feb. 2026
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Progressive senators are wading into Democratic primaries across the country, at times breaking from their leaders to back more left-leaning or insurgent candidates — with the notable exception of Texas.—
Burgess Everett,
semafor.com,
10 Feb. 2026
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Those funds often backed far-right Republican insurgents.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
10 Feb. 2026
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Since those early beginnings, the invention’s larger structure has evolved to assume narrative shapes, such as the regular geography of Christopher Robin’s Hundred Acre Wood (where the anarch is the merrily spontaneous Winnie-the-Pooh).—
Angus Fletcher,
Smithsonian Magazine,
10 Mar. 2021
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That was Sokolowski’s introduction to a network of sadistic online extremists.—
Curt Devine,
CNN Money,
10 Feb. 2026
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More than 150 Christians were abducted from three churches in another part of Kaduna in January before being released this week while at least 160 people, mostly Muslims, were killed by Islamic extremists in Kwara state for refusing to be indoctrinated.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
8 Feb. 2026
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