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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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The Houthis paused attacks until the U.S. launched a broad assault against the rebels in mid-March.—
Sydney Lake,
Fortune,
8 July 2025
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Shortly after that, Israeli airstrikes on Iranian weapons shipments to Hezbollah across neighboring Syria — at the time, a key ally of Iran — weakened the dictatorship of President Bashar al-Assad, who was overthrown last December by rebels.—
James Hider,
NPR,
7 July 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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The warning issue June 11 said terrorist and insurgent groups regularly attacked Iraqi security forces and civilians and anti-U.S. militias threatened U.S. citizens and international companies.—
Brendan Cole,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 June 2025
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The Iranian regime has held Americans hostage and supported terrorists and insurgents who have killed U.S. service members in Lebanon and Iraq.—
Reid Smith,
Foreign Affairs,
18 June 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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In 1927, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, two working-class Italian anarchists charged with murder, were sent to the electric chair in Massachusetts, setting off protests around the world.—
Zachary Fine,
New Yorker,
24 June 2025
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While for many nineteenth-century anarchists, human nature was understood in scientific terms, Tolstoy understood it religiously.—
Ben Woollard,
JSTOR Daily,
18 June 2025
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Beyoncé’s intentionality, Turini’s talent, and a trove of custom pieces by renowned houses and emerging brands have made for an aspirational red, white, and blue wardrobe.—
Leah Faye Cooper,
Vogue,
4 July 2025
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The 2025 version features a classic red, white, and blue colorway etched into the team logo, with light blue crowns, and either red or blue brims.—
Ben Verbrugge,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 July 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://x0upouf933.proxynodejs.usequeue.com/thesaurus/resister. Accessed 12 Jul. 2025.
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