MILITANTS Synonyms: 59 Similar and Opposite Words

militants

noun

plural of militant

as in partisans

one who is intensely or excessively devoted to a cause militants within the movement insisted that there could be no compromise on the issue

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Recent Examples of militants The country is also home to several minority groups that have clashed with regime forces in the past, including Kurdish militants, Arab and Baloch separatists, among others. —

Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN Money, 4 July 2026 Since overthrowing the Assad dynasty and taking power in a lightning insurgency in December 2024, Syria’s new rulers have cracked down on militants from the extremist Islamic State group in an attempt to thwart attacks in and around the capital. —

ABC News, 2 July 2026 The Justice Department portrays the group as antifa militants, while defense lawyers and civil liberties advocates warn the case could reshape how protests and free speech rights are prosecuted nationwide. —

Jamie Stengle, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026 Overnight, Hezbollah militants killed an Israeli soldier in the village of Deir Siryan in southern Lebanon, according to the Israeli military. —

Jon Gambrell, Fortune, 28 June 2026 Pakistan accuses Afghanistan's Taliban government of harboring militants who carry out deadly attacks inside Pakistan, especially the TTP. —

CBS News, 28 June 2026 An early indication of this sentiment came last November, when militants detonated a car near the Red Fort in New Delhi. —

Michael Kugelman, Time, 26 June 2026 Among the 209 detained, 56 were allegedly ISIS militants, according to the AP. —

Robert McGreevy, FOXNews.com, 23 June 2026 Sullivan and Sodais watched together as the militants seized Herat. —

Tess Kenny, Chicago Tribune, 21 June 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for militants

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Reynolds tracks the willingness of northern partisans—Carl Schurz, Horace Greeley, Lyman Trumbull, and even Sumner himself—to abandon that cause by the dwindling references to Jamestown and Plymouth.

— James Traub, The Atlantic, 28 June 2026
Meanwhile, partisans continued to spar over dozens of Republican bills that would allow voters to lower property taxes for homeowners by raising sales taxes on everyone.

— David Wickert, AJC.com, 23 June 2026

Definition of partisans

Noun

In recent years, thanks to the work of scholars, artists, and local activists, public awareness of the violence of 1898 has increased.

— Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 3 July 2026
Soon after Kushner announced his project, environmental activists began objecting to its potential ecological implications.

— Max Grinstein, The Washington Examiner, 3 July 2026

Definition of activists

Noun

The book is full of stories of villains, like the venomous heroin that took so many of Seattle’s crusaders as well as the music industry that never quite understood where Soundgarden belonged.

— Selena Fragassi, SPIN, 9 June 2026
The facility remains popular among anti-immigrant crusaders, and Attorney General Uthmeier’s campaign store sells Alligator Alcatraz bumper stickers, T-shirts, and caps.

— Eric Schlosser, The Atlantic, 4 June 2026