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Recent Examples of resister
In the 1940s and ’50s, room-sized mainframe computers relied on thousands of vacuum tubes, resisters, capacitors and more.
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Gerui Wang, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
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
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Gerui Wang, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for resister
Noun
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All rights reserved The Los Angeles Chargers, not the Denver Broncos, have emerged as the primary challenger to the Kansas City Chiefs’ nine-year reign as AFC West champions.—
Jack Magruder,
Forbes.com,
20 Sep. 2025
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The Maine Senate race has drawn several challengers in addition to Kleban.—
Andrew Stanton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 Sep. 2025
Noun
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But in a region being fought over by a patchwork of anti-junta rebel groups, the military and pro-military militia – and given the widespread distrust of the Rohingya – information on where exactly his family are, or what will become of them, has not been forthcoming.—
Esha Mitra,
CNN Money,
14 Sep. 2025
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By the finale, the galactic chessboard is crowded with players—emperors, rebels, prophets, impostors—but as Hari Seldon (Jared Harris) warned in the very first episode, the center cannot hold.—
JP Mangalindan,
Time,
12 Sep. 2025
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The uniform of the conformist — sports shirt, cardigan, tennis shoes — is as easily recognized as that of the recusant — dirty white T, sideburns, two days’ growth of beard.—
Chris Jones,
chicagotribune.com,
15 July 2019
Noun
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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
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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
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This new generation of outlets has also begun to shape the political conversation on the left, helping boost insurgent challengers to the Democratic establishment.—
Max Tani,
semafor.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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Perfect for pondering what’s more human than human or planning insurgent actions against a cruel imperial apparatus.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
12 Sep. 2025
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Few among the bureaucratic, business, and even military elites denounced the mutineers, exposing limited support for Putin.—
ANDREI YAKOVLEV,
Foreign Affairs,
16 May 2025
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He’s been with them since the beginning, proving himself as a loyal friend and a valuable mutineer.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
7 Feb. 2025
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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
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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
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By contrast, left-wing extremist incidents, including those tied to anarchist or environmental movements, have made up about 10 to 15 percent of incidents and less than 5 percent of fatalities.—
Jonathan M. Gitlin,
ArsTechnica,
18 Sep. 2025
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Prosecutors said members of that group engaged in digital extremism with the explicit goal of dismantling societal order, much in the way the anarchists of the pre-internet era used to operate.—
Jesus Mesa,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Sep. 2025
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“Resister.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/resister. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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