guerrilla
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Comedy duo Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol used guerrilla filmmaking and footage they shot in the mid-aughts to create a time-travel caper about their characters’ quest to play the ultimate gig.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
Anti-putsch protests were put down by security forces, but activists quit the cities to form pro-democracy guerrilla groups, fighting alongside ethnic minority armies which have long resisted central rule.
From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026
Valdes was second-in-command of a guerrilla column led by Argentina's Ernesto "Che" Guevara.
From Barron's ● Jun. 21, 2026
After launching in 2022 as a live event outdoors at Lincoln Center, the guerrilla awards show reached TV screens for the first time last year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026
The gravest issues seem to have occurred among the partisans, the guerrilla resistance fighters on the German-occupied side of the front lines.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
Nor are streets, schools or government buildings named after him, a prohibition he imposed shortly after his guerrillas overthrew Fulgencio Batista in 1959.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
The trek takes Etna across a bombed-out city and into a mountain range occupied by refugees and guerrillas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
Believing he would replicate the triumph in Cuba, he went to Bolivia with a small group of would-be guerrillas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 25, 2026
Former Maoist rebel Vishnu Madvi, 26, surrendered in January after seven years with the guerrillas.
From Barron's ● Mar. 30, 2026
About three hundred troops and eight hundred Filipino guerrillas charge into the camp.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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