as in revolutionary
a person who believes that government and laws are not necessary
The anarchists decided to move to a remote location that was, for all intents and purposes, lawless.
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Recent Examples of anarchist
Granted, such dialogue would be much harder with MAGA or leftist crazies, racists, anarchists, misogynists or white supremacists.
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Mike McGrew, Baltimore Sun, 22 Dec. 2024
Their dilemmas evoke our disregard of the vacancy in Antifa anarchists and our encouragement of gender dysphoria.
—Armond White, National Review, 25 Sep. 2024
Oh, and Josh and CJ meet with some crazy mapmakers, and Toby hangs out with anarchists.
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—Matthew Jackson, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2024
Marlinspike isn’t particularly interested in a debate, either; his mind was made up long ago, during years as an anarchist living on the fringes of society.
—Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 31 July 2016
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Mike McGrew, Baltimore Sun, 22 Dec. 2024
Their dilemmas evoke our disregard of the vacancy in Antifa anarchists and our encouragement of gender dysphoria.
—Armond White, National Review, 25 Sep. 2024
Oh, and Josh and CJ meet with some crazy mapmakers, and Toby hangs out with anarchists.
50.
—Matthew Jackson, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2024
Marlinspike isn’t particularly interested in a debate, either; his mind was made up long ago, during years as an anarchist living on the fringes of society.
—Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 31 July 2016
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for anarchist
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Massoud also pauses at a monument to Louis Riel, a 19th-century Canadian revolutionary of Franco-Chipewyan Métis descent, who was executed in 1885 for leading an Indigenous rebellion for civil rights.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Feb. 2025
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The connection between Nafisi and Bahri is presented with complexity and without sentimentality, neither papering over political differences nor caricaturing Bahri as a generic revolutionary.—
Arash Azizi,
The Atlantic,
26 Jan. 2025
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On the battlefield, the nobles’ cavalry and superior artillery brutally cut down the rebels.—
Michael Bruening,
The Conversation,
25 Feb. 2025
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The rebels on Friday also claimed to have seized a second airport in the region, in the town of Kavumu outside Bukavu.—
JUSTIN KABUMBA,
arkansasonline.com,
16 Feb. 2025
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Britain, under the comparatively liberal Keir Starmer, has a rather more niche anxiety: that its citizens will leave and then return as insurgents.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
24 Jan. 2025
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Pakistani security forces killed 27 insurgents during a raid on a militant hideout, according to a statement from the country's military.—
John Mac Ghlionn,
Newsweek,
13 Jan. 2025
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