as in insurrection
open fighting against authority (as one's own government)
there always seems to be insurgency of some type in that troubled country
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Recent Examples of insurgency
Carter left office amid the start of the Salvadoran Civil War — a war that many consider to have been a proxy battle within the larger Cold War, where the U.S. backed the Salvadoran military, and Cuba and the Soviet Union backed a leftist insurgency.
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Jasmine Romero, NPR, 10 Jan. 2025
Trump could instead lead with Vice President JD Vance’s promise: Boost the Child Tax Credit to $5,000 per child for young families, a progressive idea submitted by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) last week in a timid insurgency by Republican moderates who prefer to lift middling Americans.
—Bruce Fuller, Baltimore Sun, 6 Feb. 2025
Moreover, if an agreement with the PKK is not part of a larger arrangement securing the equal status and democratic rights of Turkey’s Kurdish population, simmering discontent could once again spill over into armed insurgency.
—Halil Karaveli, Foreign Affairs, 3 Feb. 2025
In a related development, Congo severed diplomatic ties with Rwanda on Saturday, accusing its neighbor of supporting the M23 insurgency, a claim Rwanda denies despite mounting evidence.
—Joel Thayer, Newsweek, 27 Jan. 2025
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Jasmine Romero, NPR, 10 Jan. 2025
Trump could instead lead with Vice President JD Vance’s promise: Boost the Child Tax Credit to $5,000 per child for young families, a progressive idea submitted by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) last week in a timid insurgency by Republican moderates who prefer to lift middling Americans.
—Bruce Fuller, Baltimore Sun, 6 Feb. 2025
Moreover, if an agreement with the PKK is not part of a larger arrangement securing the equal status and democratic rights of Turkey’s Kurdish population, simmering discontent could once again spill over into armed insurgency.
—Halil Karaveli, Foreign Affairs, 3 Feb. 2025
In a related development, Congo severed diplomatic ties with Rwanda on Saturday, accusing its neighbor of supporting the M23 insurgency, a claim Rwanda denies despite mounting evidence.
—Joel Thayer, Newsweek, 27 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for insurgency
Noun
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McKinley took a similar approach in dealing with Spain during its brutal effort to suppress an insurrection in Cuba against Spanish imperial rule.—
Robert W. Merry,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
7 Mar. 2025
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His clemency toward those convicted of crimes related to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection – including seditious conspiracy and assaults on police officers – was different in key ways from the two previous efforts, by Andrew Johnson in 1868 and Ulysses S. Grant in 1873.—
David Cason,
The Conversation,
7 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Go deeper: Mike Johnson struggles to contain a GOP budget revolt Editor's note: This is a developing story.—
Andrew Solender,
Axios,
26 Feb. 2025
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Ray, although in his forties, was at one with youth in revolt.—
Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
26 Feb. 2025
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Early in the uprising, Masri's home in Homs was known a safe haven.—
Jawad Rizkallah,
NPR,
5 Mar. 2025
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Most of them were imprisoned during the first and second intifadas, uprisings by Palestinians against Israel’s military occupation of the West Bank.—
Zeena Saifi,
CNN,
4 Mar. 2025
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Or just a brilliant disguise?’ - from Brilliant Disguise Rock 'n' roll has always embodied rebellion and dissent.—
Vibhas Ratanjee,
Forbes,
27 Feb. 2025
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Set in the Alentejo region of southern Portugal, where Mateus was raised, a peasant community of grape-pickers become agents in an open-air ritual of remembrance and rebellion.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
26 Feb. 2025
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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
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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
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“Insurgency.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/insurgency. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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