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Recent Examples of mutinous As the mood within Facebook had begun to sour over the years, some badge posts began to take on a more mutinous tone. Jeff Horwitz, Rolling Stone, 11 Nov. 2023 The shoot went more than a hundred days over schedule, and the crew nearly turned mutinous. Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023 The first among the recent coups was in Mali, where mutinous soldiers seized power in 2020 and again in 2021, when a military officer ousted the original coup leader. Rachel Chason, Washington Post, 28 Jan. 2024 Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the violent Wagner mercenary group who in June led his fighters on an aborted mutinous march to Moscow, likely died in a jet crash in Russia on Wednesday with nine others, Russia's Federal Agency for Air Transport said. Henry Austin, NBC News, 23 Aug. 2023 See All Example Sentences for mutinous
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mutinous
Adjective
  • The photograph depicts a foot soldier in an insurgent religious movement trying to storm the halls of American power.
    John Blake, CNN, 12 Jan. 2025
  • Burrows' win marks a defeat for the insurgent right wing of the GOP that eschewed working with Democrats.
    Shafaq Patel, Axios, 15 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Foreign military interventions can change victims from being viewed as a nuisance into being seen as powerful and traitorous enemies, potentially capable of exacting revenge, seizing power, or breaking away from the state.
    Benjamin A. Valentino, Foreign Affairs, 17 Oct. 2011
  • But what will their first move as a traitorous duo be?
    Tom Smyth, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • And if his readership remained informed on his doings, the prince and his supporters didn’t succeed in silencing him and the rest of the rebellious faction.
    Emily Zarevich, JSTOR Daily, 4 Apr. 2025
  • Wearing cowboy boots with shorts is not only a bold stylistic choice but also a practical way to dress for warm weather without giving up the rustic and rebellious touch that the boots bring.
    René Chávez Esparza, Glamour, 31 Mar. 2025

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“Mutinous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mutinous. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.

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