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
Jeffrey Collins, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2025
Business leaders face challenges, including the frantic need for speedy decision-making, unexpected market shifts, geopolitical volatility, internal mutinies, power plays and harrowing decisions that can hurt the livelihood of their teams by cutting jobs.
—Carlo Tortora Brayda, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
Helen Li, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2023
More recently, Tytler and his young wife, Harriet Tytler—she eight months pregnant, with two small children at her side—had narrowly escaped Delhi in 1857, when the sepoys, or Indian infantrymen, mutinied.
—Adam Goodheart, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Sep. 2023
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Noun
Death in a hail of bullets has been used to punish mutinies and desertion in armies, as frontier justice in America’s Old West, and as a tool of terror and political repression in the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany.
—Jeffrey Collins, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2025
Business leaders face challenges, including the frantic need for speedy decision-making, unexpected market shifts, geopolitical volatility, internal mutinies, power plays and harrowing decisions that can hurt the livelihood of their teams by cutting jobs.
—Carlo Tortora Brayda, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
Verb
Jackie Calmes: McCarthy flopped, Gaetz mutinied, but blame the chaos on the entire Republican Party.
—Helen Li, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2023
More recently, Tytler and his young wife, Harriet Tytler—she eight months pregnant, with two small children at her side—had narrowly escaped Delhi in 1857, when the sepoys, or Indian infantrymen, mutinied.
—Adam Goodheart, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Sep. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mutiny
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Listen to this article Nearly a year after record heat and surging electric bills sparked a ratepayer revolt, the legislature is set to take up a bill that could cut hundreds of millions of dollars from customer rates by restructuring how the state buys energy and how customers pay for it.—
Edmund H. Mahony,
Hartford Courant,
16 Apr. 2025
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The longtime leader of the latter group, George Gresham, is said to personally support endorsing Mr. Cuomo but is facing a broader revolt within his union.—
Nicholas Fandos,
New York Times,
14 Apr. 2025
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Democrats believe the rebelling conservatives will fold in the end.—
Jonathan Easley,
The Hill,
8 Apr. 2025
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Broad stock indexes have now erased their post-electoral gains as investors rebel against the prospect of higher costs.—
Rob Wile,
NBC News,
12 Mar. 2025
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Users have convened on 4chan to plan hacks like DDoS attacks, and conspiracy theories that festered on 4chan even reportedly inspired the January 6 insurrection at the United States Capitol.—
Matt Burgess,
Wired News,
15 Apr. 2025
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With military support from Saudi Arabia, Bahrain’s Sunni dictator Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa survived a Shiite insurrection.—
Bruce Fein,
Baltimore Sun,
14 Apr. 2025
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Arrested repeatedly since the height of the Egyptian uprising in 2011, he was sentenced in 2021 to an additional five years in prison for spreading false news and assaulting a police officer – charges that human rights organizations say were politically motivated.—
Mounira Elsamra,
CNN Money,
24 Apr. 2025
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Their uprising over, they are presented with a fresh set of challenges under the rule of a cunning pig named Napoleon (Rogen).—
Brent Lang,
Variety,
22 Apr. 2025
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What may have seemed like a lighthearted act of rebellion struck a chord with many disillusioned job seekers, fed up with outdated hiring practices and a job market increasingly filtered through artificial intelligence.—
Arick Wierson,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 Apr. 2025
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For years, Bitcoin stood as a symbol of rebellion—a decentralized answer to central banks, inflationary currencies, and overreaching governments.—
Max (Chong) Li,
Forbes.com,
15 Apr. 2025
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“Mutiny.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mutiny. Accessed 29 Apr. 2025.
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