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Recent Examples of resister
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.
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R. Joseph Huddleston, Foreign Affairs, 6 Oct. 2017
His first official act as president was to pardon Vietnam-era draft resisters, thereby helping bring that sorry chapter in American life to a close.
—Randall Balmer, The Mercury News, 2 Jan. 2025
As one of his first acts upon taking office, President Carter pardoned all Vietnam War draft resisters.
—Vogue, 29 Dec. 2024
Perhaps a tad too neatly, the Dahl siblings are accompanied by outliers to serve as witnesses, resisters and accelerants.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2024
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R. Joseph Huddleston, Foreign Affairs, 6 Oct. 2017
His first official act as president was to pardon Vietnam-era draft resisters, thereby helping bring that sorry chapter in American life to a close.
—Randall Balmer, The Mercury News, 2 Jan. 2025
As one of his first acts upon taking office, President Carter pardoned all Vietnam War draft resisters.
—Vogue, 29 Dec. 2024
Perhaps a tad too neatly, the Dahl siblings are accompanied by outliers to serve as witnesses, resisters and accelerants.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for resister
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
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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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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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He’s been with them since the beginning, proving himself as a loyal friend and a valuable mutineer.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
7 Feb. 2025
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The mutineers requested political asylum but instead were imprisoned by the Cambodian government.—
Roberto Loiederman,
Baltimore Sun,
11 Jan. 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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Within Russia, the oppositionists’ challenges are far greater.—
Michael Kimmage,
Foreign Affairs,
18 Sep. 2024
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Others on board included modernist Russian poet and a Trotskyite anarchist Victor Serge, Martinican poet and a founder of the anticolonialism Négritude movement Aimé Césaire, Cuban painter Wifredo Lam; influential Marxist psychiatrist and Pan-Africanist Frantz Fanon, along with fascinating others.—
Mark Swed,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Feb. 2025
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And Birmingham, the son of a police officer and a mom who did social work, admit to being something of an anarchist.—
Lisa Kennedy,
Variety,
3 Feb. 2025
Noun
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For the patio, Antonioni commissioned a 40-foot-long cement table in the same shade of red as the exterior.—
Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
23 Feb. 2025
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Townsend was in a sea of red and burgundy amid the several hundred mourners who attended Moses’ funeral at Angelus Funeral Home earlier this month.—
Libor Jany,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Feb. 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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As the head of China’s Nationalist government, Chiang and his party were trying to establish control in a nation divided among revolutionists, nationalists, Indigenous warlords, and a developing communist army and government.—
Susan Tate Ankeny,
Smithsonian Magazine,
23 Apr. 2024
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“Resister.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/resister. Accessed 6 Mar. 2025.
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