insubordination

The Pentagon fired “Stars and Stripes” editor-in-chief Erik Slavin and Middle East reporter Lara Korte on Friday, citing insubordination after the journalists publicly defended the newspaper’s editorial independence.

From Salon ● Aug. 22, 2026

Shotwell, according to the New York Times, also asked staff involved with the letter to stop “flooding” company communication channels and said she would consider ignoring her email to be insubordination.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 11, 2026

He attacked the qualifications of her replacement and told him he wasn’t welcome in a way that could only indicate insubordination.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026

He was an Army lieutenant, prosecuted by a military court for insubordination and then acquitted.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2026

An outraged Curtis wasted no time in charging the eight new officers heading up the union with insubordination.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler

She saw peeping and smiling at the edge of the door a neighbor's face, that encouraged her insubordinations.

From The Chase of Saint-Castin and Other Stories of the French in the New World by Mary Hartwell Catherwood

I shall report the whole of your insubordinations in a properly written-out despatch.

From In the King's Name The Cruise of the "Kestrel" by George Manville Fenn

Many of the foreign officers spoke little, if any, English, and mutual jealousies and insubordinations soon manifested themselves in the little band.

From History of Cuba; or, Notes of a Traveller in the Tropics Being a Political, Historical, and Statistical Account of the Island, from its First Discovery to the Present Time by Maturin Murray Ballou