as in traitor
a person who abandons a cause or organization usually without right
we had orders to find and capture the deserters before they could reveal our location
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Recent Examples of deserter
According to some reports, defectors and deserters have been burned or frozen to death in Iraq.
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Mara R. Revkin, Foreign Affairs, 1 May 2016
Go way back to President Lincoln, who made hard decisions himself about deserters from the Army, things like that.
—CBS News, 15 Dec. 2024
Abraham Lincoln: Issued clemency to thousands of individuals, including Confederate deserters, during the Civil War.
—Marley Malenfant, Austin American-Statesman, 12 Dec. 2024
The opposition needs just three more deserters from the party to pass the bill.
—Choe Sang-Hun, New York Times, 12 Dec. 2024
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Mara R. Revkin, Foreign Affairs, 1 May 2016
Go way back to President Lincoln, who made hard decisions himself about deserters from the Army, things like that.
—CBS News, 15 Dec. 2024
Abraham Lincoln: Issued clemency to thousands of individuals, including Confederate deserters, during the Civil War.
—Marley Malenfant, Austin American-Statesman, 12 Dec. 2024
The opposition needs just three more deserters from the party to pass the bill.
—Choe Sang-Hun, New York Times, 12 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for deserter
Noun
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The president saw General Milley as a grandstander and a traitor.—
Eric Schmitt,
New York Times,
23 Feb. 2025
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At the start of the season, host Alan Cumming picked three traitors at the roundtable, and immediately, Sandoval suspected Stause — quickly causing tension between the two.—
Charna Flam,
People.com,
22 Feb. 2025
Noun
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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
Noun
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Some have held him up as a renegade, choosing freedom over the comforts of domestic life.—
Rick Rojas,
New York Times,
17 Feb. 2025
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To someone, the renegade and pop-culture memes might be worth a few months’ rent.—
Hank Sanders,
New York Times,
24 Jan. 2025
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