resister

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Recent Examples of resister Collaborators often became resisters, and vice versa. Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025 That approach was dumb from the outset, and the election blew it up in resisters’ faces. Clive Crook, Twin Cities, 8 Feb. 2025 As a symbol of the Shoah, Auschwitz obscures the courage of Jewish resisters. Martin Kimel, Baltimore Sun, 26 Jan. 2025 In the circumstances that Spain’s government has created for itself, even those most averse to change and politically hesitant can become rebels and resisters. R. Joseph Huddleston, Foreign Affairs, 6 Oct. 2017 See All Example Sentences for resister
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Noun
  • The attackers were members of the Islamist Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a sanctioned rebel group with roots in Uganda.
    Paul Tilsley, FOXNews.com, 31 July 2025
  • While Kurdish factions remained largely neutral in the civil war between Assad and rebels, alternatively fighting with one side or the other at various times, the Iran- and Russia-backed Syrian ruler's comeback from defeats in the earlier stages of the war paved the way for potential partnerships.
    Tom O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 July 2025
Noun
  • Evan Turk’s provocative and emotive illustrations, portraits within this portrait, bring swirling movement and feeling to the story of this defier and definer of the times.
    BostonGlobe.com, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Apr. 2021
  • Everybody enjoys being thought of as a scofflaw, or a hell-raiser, or defier of authority, especially if such activity happened in the past.
    Karen Martin, Arkansas Online, 29 Nov. 2020
Noun
  • Prosecutors allege that Carvajal played a key role in coordinating large-scale cocaine shipments to the United States, using his official position to protect narcotics operations and facilitate deals with foreign insurgent groups, most notably Colombia’s FARC.
    Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 25 June 2025
  • Inside is the man who arrived at Balenciaga as a 34-year old insurgent from Vetements in 2015, and is now moving on, aged 44, as one of the undisputed creative director titans of luxury fashion, charged to revive the flagging fortunes of Gucci.
    Sarah Mower, Vogue, 24 June 2025
Noun
  • Few among the bureaucratic, business, and even military elites denounced the mutineers, exposing limited support for Putin.
    ANDREI YAKOVLEV, Foreign Affairs, 16 May 2025
  • The games remain incomplete, and may in fact remain that way depending on what the Front Man decides to do with Gi-hun and all of the other mutineers.
    Josh Wigler, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Deporting supposed gang members and Hamas supporters without due process may violate any number of statutes, but forcing oppositionists to defend these people’s rights allows the administration to paint them as defending their ideas.
    Garry Kasparov, The Atlantic, 17 Apr. 2025
  • Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) is a Sunni Islamist umbrella group of oppositionist forces with ideological and organizational roots in al-Qaeda.
    Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Christian Slater plays the mysterious anarchist Mr. Robot.
    Lauren Huff, EW.com, 4 July 2025
  • As Fowler outlines, in contrast to much contemporaneous Liberal thought, anarchists believed that personal liberty was best pursued socially, in a community free of government and living peacefully with the wider environment.
    Ben Woollard, JSTOR Daily, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • Many designs incorporate bold color accents, vibrant greens, reds, yellows, and blues by adding a playful contrast to the metals.
    Essence, Essence, 29 July 2025
  • Not a single district went from blue to red — or vice versa.
    The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 28 July 2025
Noun
  • In a country shackled and scarred by race, religion, gender, and class, much of that rationalized and reified by mainline American churches, the Disciples were genial revolutionists offering inclusion, education, and empowerment for those at the margins.
    Richard D. Mahoney, JSTOR Daily, 30 Apr. 2025
  • And many revolutionists think that new equipment has changed the patterns of advance and retreat in Ukraine relative to historical experience.
    Stephen Biddle, Foreign Affairs, 10 Aug. 2023

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“Resister.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/resister. Accessed 7 Aug. 2025.

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