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insurrection
noun as in rebellion
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Before the insurrection, people’s sense of security in the peaceful transfer of power and respect for election outcomes was so strong that the chipping away at the legitimacy of the results was maybe not viewed as seriously as it should have been.
Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez’s Instagram Live post on the insurrection shows why we can’t just move on.
The short-lived insurrection was planned and executed in public.
It’s a wonder any of us were able to tear ourselves away from the news for long enough to watch anything else this month, which took America from insurrection to impeachment to the inauguration of our 46th President in the space of just two weeks.
More than 100 of those involved in the act of insurrection have also been arrested, itself a form of moderation.
In the early 1960s Cambridge University was a hotbed of cultural and social insurrection.
There are fears of a major new Islamist insurrection, possibly inspired by the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
He was with James Meredith during the violent insurrection that followed the integration of the University of Mississippi in 1962.
Of course, without American logistical aid, the insurrection would have ended in tragedy.
In a rare moment of insurrection, Rivera threatened to stay behind, even without permission.
A serious insurrection occurred at Dresden, in Saxony, but was in a few days put down.
During his mild régime the insurrection increased rapidly, and in one encounter he himself was very near falling a prisoner.
The flame of organized insurrection was almost extinguished, but there still remained some dangerous embers.
Meantime the discontents in the northern provinces had broken out into open insurrection, in the captaincy of Pernambuco.
Abramko had allowed himself to be compromised in the Polish insurrection and Magus was interested in saving him.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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