as in insurrection
open fighting against authority (as one's own government)
the insurgence eventually succeeded in undermining the corrupt dictatorship
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Recent Examples of insurgence
Some users claimed in the app reviews they were contacted by the FBI answering a profile prompt about the Jan. 6 Capitol Hill insurgence, but the app dismissed the reports as trolling.
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Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 22 Nov. 2022
The insurgence captures Queen Gudrún (Nicole Kidman) and pursues the boy.
—Jesse Hassenger, The Week, 22 Apr. 2022
With the insurgence of social media and online shopping, the demand for clothes inspired by straight-off-the-runway trends without the runway price tags has grown.
—Emma Seymour, Good Housekeeping, 21 Apr. 2022
Jonathan Humphreys, 27, has been under investigation for several months, since Google geolocation data placed at least one of his devices inside the Capitol the afternoon of the violent insurgence, the affidavit states.
—Kristina Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Mar. 2022
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Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 22 Nov. 2022
The insurgence captures Queen Gudrún (Nicole Kidman) and pursues the boy.
—Jesse Hassenger, The Week, 22 Apr. 2022
With the insurgence of social media and online shopping, the demand for clothes inspired by straight-off-the-runway trends without the runway price tags has grown.
—Emma Seymour, Good Housekeeping, 21 Apr. 2022
Jonathan Humphreys, 27, has been under investigation for several months, since Google geolocation data placed at least one of his devices inside the Capitol the afternoon of the violent insurgence, the affidavit states.
—Kristina Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Mar. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for insurgence
Noun
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This number approaches Trump's 34 percent approval rating before leaving office at the end of his first term, on the heels of the January 6 insurrection.—
Anna Commander,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 July 2025
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Behar began, alluding to the 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.—
Matt Webb Mitovich,
TVLine,
23 July 2025
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Did test audiences revolt over Danica’s death, leading to additional photography?—
Brian Davids,
HollywoodReporter,
20 July 2025
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That could give him breathing space to announce a truce without suffering a right-wing revolt, The Guardian reported.—
semafor.com,
semafor.com,
8 July 2025
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Hard-line Israelis like Netanyahu believe the Palestinians don’t want peace, citing the second Palestinian uprising of the early 2000s, and more recently the Hamas takeover of Gaza two years after Israel withdrew from the territory in 2005.—
Edith M. Lederer,
Chicago Tribune,
28 July 2025
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Penn North — located at the intersection of Pennsylvania and North Avenue — is infamous not just for the open-air drug market that has festered for years, but as the flashpoint of the 2015 Freddie Gray uprising.—
Christopher Anderson,
Baltimore Sun,
27 July 2025
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Those early bands played a range of styles, though, in a touch of rebellion, stayed away from country at first.—
Jessica Nicholson,
Billboard,
1 Aug. 2025
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Ichiro, Madonna, Elvis: think about how each of them is somehow, simultaneously, impossibly, an avatar of both absolute conformity and absolute rebellion.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
New York Times,
27 July 2025
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The voyage is exhausting beyond expectations, with hunger and mutiny pushing the crew to their limits.—
Leo Barraclough,
Variety,
9 May 2025
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Along the way, the exhausting voyage involved various mutinies and crew deaths, and upon reaching the islands of the Malayan Archipelago, Magellan’s mind and ambitions changed.—
Josh Slater-Williams,
IndieWire,
18 May 2025
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“Insurgence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/insurgence. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.
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