insubordinates

plural of insubordinate

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for insubordinates
Noun
  • Every 50 years, the gates between the two open, allowing 50 challengers to embark on a deadly quest to traverse between them.
    Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025
  • This home is within Trustee Area 2, in which incumbent Pam Costa successfully ran against two challengers last year.
    Jennah Pendleton, Sacbee.com, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • This might enable a mission which, for example, a Viper is located covertly next to a safe house known to be used by insurgents.
    David Hambling, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The state Republicans have routinely witnessed battles between far-right insurgents who in recent years have complained the party isn’t Trumpy enough and the financial institutional wing that has long been the GOP establishment and funded the party for decades.
    Rick Pearson, Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • The proceeds from the arms sales were then used to fund right-wing, anti-communist rebels, known as the Contras, in Nicaragua.
    Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 11 Sep. 2025
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
  • Fragoso asked of the insurrectionists.
    EW.com, EW.com, 4 Aug. 2025
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“Insubordinates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/insubordinates. Accessed 19 Sep. 2025.

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