abandoner

noun

Definition of abandonernext
as in traitor

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  1. traitor
  2. turncoat
  3. dropout
  4. rebel
  5. insurgent
  6. mutineer
  7. quisling
  8. turnabout
Noun
  • The Traitors season 3 cast portraits revealed (exclusive) With 21 contestants and a mysterious number of traitors among them, it's bound to be a rollicking good time.
    Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 18 Dec. 2024
  • Advertisement The same applies to UCLA and USC, traitors who destroyed the Pac-12, and are now condemned to fighting for seventh place every year in the Big Ten.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2024
Definition of traitor
Noun
  • Others to Watch: Marc Andreessen: A vc worth $1.9 billion, Andreessen made waves as an ex-Democrat donating to pro-Trump groups—among the first key Silicon Valley turncoats—and went to Mar-A-Lago on election night.
    Joe Walsh, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
  • Some of you certainly want Cowboy-loving turncoat Isaac shipped off to Axios Dallas, pronto.
    Isaac Avilucea, Axios, 27 Nov. 2024
Definition of turncoat
Noun
  • The organization began in 2005 after San Jose teacher Charles Schmuck became concerned by the high college dropout rate of first-generation, low-income youth from San Mateo County and the Mid-Peninsula area.
    Molly Gibbs, The Mercury News, 13 Dec. 2024
  • This individualized approach keeps learners engaged, helps them master concepts more effectively, and reduces the dropout rate.
    Sandy Carter, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
Definition of dropout
Noun
  • What's New On Friday 170 House Republicans joined Democrats to approve an emergency funding bill just hours before a partial government shutdown was due to go into effect, despite President-elect Donald Trump's threat to oust any rebels.
    Gord Magill, Newsweek, 21 Dec. 2024
  • Over the years, there have also been news reports of Syrian rebels being treated in Israeli hospitals.
    Lauren Frayer, NPR, 20 Dec. 2024
Definition of rebel
Noun
  • Initially a religious movement focused on promoting Yemen's Zaidi Shiite Muslim community, Ansar Allah grew into a powerful insurgent group that captured large swathes of northern territory, including Sanaa, between late 2014 and early 2015.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 16 Dec. 2024
  • The country is now largely under the control of an insurgent group named Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS.
    Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 16 Dec. 2024
Definition of insurgent
Noun
  • The two who came closest to challenging him—the opposition leader Alexei Navalny and the mutineer Yevgeny Prigozhin—are now dead.
    Peter Schroeder, Foreign Affairs, 3 Sep. 2024
  • While Musk was on his honeymoon, Botha and other mutineers met with PayPal’s lead investors to make their case.
    Michal Lev-Ram, Fortune, 25 July 2024
Definition of mutineer
Noun
  • Erdogan, meanwhile, lambasted Kilicdaroglu as a quisling who is in cahoots with the West and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, a Kurdish separatist group that both Ankara and Washington consider a terrorist entity.
    Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2023
  • And Kilicdaroglu was an easy mark for Erdogan, who has belittled him for years and cast him during the campaign as both a terrorist and a quisling for Western interests — accusations that stuck in the minds of some voters.
    Kareem Fahim, Washington Post, 27 May 2023
Definition of quisling
Noun
  • Cease, especially, could fetch solid prospects in return, a startling turnabout for the Padres, who in recent years have been the ones shoveling promising minor leaguers from their fertile farm system to others in exchange for win-now veterans.
    Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2024
  • This was a turnabout for a commander who, Payne notes, previously endorsed the quiet regulation of red-light areas patronized by U.S. soldiers during the Mexican border war of 1916.
    Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
Definition of turnabout
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