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Recent Examples of resister
Collaborators often became resisters, and vice versa.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for resister
Noun
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Also starring Jamie Lee Curtis, the original 2003 flick found Lohan’s character — a teenage rebel who fronts a rock band called Pink Slip — magically switching bodies with her mother.—
Hannah Dailey,
Billboard,
28 May 2025
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Bo was a rebel on a motorcycle who soon fell for the rich and spirited Hope.—
Victoria Edel,
People.com,
26 May 2025
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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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For decades, the Philippine armed forces battled insurgents in the southern reaches of the archipelago.—
ELY RATNER,
Foreign Affairs,
27 May 2025
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The insurgents have become the establishment, and the purpose of the establishment is always to protect itself.—
Chris Stirewalt,
The Hill,
23 May 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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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
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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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From anarchists to orders Antonio Gramsci, the early 20th-century Italian Marxist theorist, expanded the concept of hegemony beyond international relations into a class analysis.—
Andrew Latham,
The Conversation,
30 May 2025
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Greenwich Village was thick with activists, artists, and anarchists; Harlem was having its Renaissance.—
Alexandra Schwartz,
New Yorker,
5 May 2025
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The states colored in deep red have the highest levels of homeownership among young people.—
Giulia Carbonaro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 May 2025
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In terms of whites, the region is best known for its Pinot Grigio and Pinot Bianco but also produces excellent Pinot Nero, one of its signature reds.—
Irene S. Levine,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2025
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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
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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 10 Jun. 2025.
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