as in revolt
open fighting against authority (as one's own government)
a mutiny led by the ship's cook
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as in to rebel
to rise up against established authority
the party's conservative faction mutinied just before the election
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Recent Examples of mutiny
Anatoly Kurmanaev, New York Times, 17 May 2025
Although the crisis was quickly defused and Prigozhin was eliminated two months later, the mutiny dealt a significant blow to the regime.
—Andrei Yakovlev, Foreign Affairs, 16 May 2025
Max Bergmann, Foreign Affairs, 18 July 2023
Jackie Calmes: McCarthy flopped, Gaetz mutinied, but blame the chaos on the entire Republican Party.
—Helen Li, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2023
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Noun
But an unconvincing victory could eventually bubble up into the kind of discontent that fueled the Wagner paramilitary force mutiny in 2023.
—Anatoly Kurmanaev, New York Times, 17 May 2025
Although the crisis was quickly defused and Prigozhin was eliminated two months later, the mutiny dealt a significant blow to the regime.
—Andrei Yakovlev, Foreign Affairs, 16 May 2025
Verb
In early November, as the German naval command contemplated initiating a final climactic and likely suicidal attack on the British fleet, German sailors mutinied in the city of Kiel, leading to a wider revolution.
—Max Bergmann, Foreign Affairs, 18 July 2023
Jackie Calmes: McCarthy flopped, Gaetz mutinied, but blame the chaos on the entire Republican Party.
—Helen Li, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mutiny
Noun
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Wells’s revolt against White led to the making of one of New York’s greatest houses.—
Henry Wiencek
July 22,
Literary Hub,
22 July 2025
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Trump faces a revolt from his MAGA base as the Jeffrey Epstein files dominated a conservative conference in Tampa this weekend.—
Jana Kasperkevic,
NBC news,
14 July 2025
Verb
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Determined to find a way out despite the painful testing and horrific consequences for rebelling.—
Aramide Tinubu,
Variety,
13 July 2025
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Were Susan and her brothers eager to rebel and create less commercial, more challenging music than their record company would allow?—
George Varga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
9 July 2025
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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
Noun
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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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Jefferson’s Democratic-Republicans, by contrast, advanced a more limited vision of federal governance, including a revenue system that relied heavily on tariffs and not at all on internal taxes (like the controversial excise on whiskey that sparked the eponymous rebellion).—
Joseph Thorndike,
Forbes.com,
21 July 2025
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To be clear, not all teens are taking part in some sort of mass rebellion by staring us down.—
Melissa Willets,
Parents,
17 July 2025
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“Mutiny.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mutiny. Accessed 4 Aug. 2025.
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