deserters

noun

plural of deserter
as in traitors
a person who abandons a cause or organization usually without right we had orders to find and capture the deserters before they could reveal our location

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Recent Examples of deserters More important, though, is the fact that the judge who posited that hordes of deserters could follow Vovchenko’s example seems to be overstepping his role. — Air Mail, 25 Oct. 2025 And within his own country’s history, particularly, Dhont discovered the fates that met would-be deserters who were caught — brutal sentences often leading to death. — David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 12 May 2026 Language purists like to remind anyone who will listen that decimation actually means the slaughter of one in ten people, and was the military punishment wielded by the Roman army against deserters and mutineers. — Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025 Harry Truman granted amnesty to certain World War II deserters, while Jimmy Carter granted pardons to hundreds of thousands of individuals who dodged the draft during the Vietnam War. — Stewart Ulrich, The Conversation, 15 Dec. 2025 Despite opposition to busing, particularly among White families who comprised much of Louisville's Catholic population, Archbishop McDonough vowed in 1974 that his schools would not become the home of public school deserters. — Krista Johnson, Louisville Courier Journal, 4 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for deserters
  1. traitors
  2. rebels
  3. renegades
  4. insurgents
  5. defectors
Noun
  • Just one more thing … this organization does not tolerate traitors!
    — Gina Kalsi, PEOPLE, 24 June 2026
  • Keep your actual and suspected traitors closer – the non-loyal, uncommitted, secretive, suspicious, dishonest, deceitful, chronically negative, and regularly undermining.
    — Peter D. Banko, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
Definition of traitors
Noun
  • He was convicted in 2009 of human rights abuses in the fight against the rebels, and later of corruption charges.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 3 July 2026
  • He was convicted in 2009 of human rights abuses in the fight against the rebels and, later on, corruption charges.
    — Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 3 July 2026
Definition of rebels
Noun
  • In short, this list reminded me that our radicals and renegades are the best thing about this great nation.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 6 July 2026
  • There are Sixties rock bands like the Sonics and the Small Faces, and pioneering hippie renegades like Love or the Thirteenth Floor Elevators.
    — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 24 June 2026
Definition of renegades
Noun
  • The establishment’s theory of the case has always been that popular insurgents are too risky, too unpolished, too outside the lane.
    — Tad Devine, Fortune, 7 July 2026
  • Fujimori, 51, is the daughter of late President Alberto Fujimori, who governed the country ​with an iron fist from 1990 to 2000 and was credited with defeating Maoist insurgents and taming runaway hyperinflation.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 4 July 2026
Definition of insurgents
Noun
  • Anthropic, whose ranks include many safety-minded defectors from its rival, argues the slower rollout will help society adapt to the powerful new tools.
    — Ben Paviour, Sacbee.com, 17 June 2026
  • Disclosure Day, based on an original story by Spielberg, centers on a decades-long government conspiracy to cover up the existence of alien life, and the group of defectors intent on releasing that intel to the public.
    — Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 11 June 2026
Definition of defectors

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