rebel
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Here’s hoping it inspires a new generation of rebel filmmakers to take the wheel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
It ruled "the temporary suspension" of bombings of rebel camps when there is intelligence information or other alerts about "the possible presence of children and adolescents."
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
George Washington and the Continental Congress hoped to sever French-speaking eastern Quebec from the rest of British Canada and bring it into the war as a 14th rebel colony.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026
Voters in northern states such as Michigan that border Canada and conduct lots of trade with that country could rebel over the latest flare-up in tensions.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
He had not finished signing the last one when a rebel colonel appeared in the doorway leading a mule carrying two chests.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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On Wednesday, the rebels reported more than 40 Saudi reprisal strikes.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
“In part, that followed the tanker attacks over the weekend, but it was also reported that the Houthi rebels had hit Saudi Arabian oil infrastructure yesterday.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
U.S. stocks fell and Treasury yields hit multiyear highs after Yemeni rebels attacked Saudi Arabian energy facilities, pushing oil prices to their highest levels of the summer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
Yemen’s Houthi rebels and al-Shabaab—al Qaeda’s wealthiest affiliate—were long divided by sectarian lines.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
Our situation, I find, is thus: Williamsburg—its Palace and its House of Burgesses—lies utterly abandoned by all royal authority, and is now the haunt of rebels.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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Unlike the majority of his generational cohort, he never rebelled against the establishment that promoted it.
From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2026
One of the main reasons colonists rebelled against the crown was that they wanted more Indigenous land—they wanted to move farther west into North America, but the king was telling them no.
From Slate ● Jul. 3, 2026
Paraguay’s national anthem starts by stating that the people of the Americas were “oppressed for three centuries” until they rebelled.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026
Haiti became the first independent black nation in the Americas in 1804, after enslaved people rebelled against their French masters in what was then the colony of Saint-Domingue.
From Barron's ● May 28, 2026
The bright hours when the young rebelled against the descending sun had to give way to twenty-four-hour periods called “days” that were named as well as numbered.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
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The bond market, however, is rebelling against that premise—a selloff is sending yields higher and raising governments’ borrowing costs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
Still, it’s promising sign that people are rebelling against Flock cameras.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026
Speakers promoting AI are getting booed at universities, voters are rebelling against data centers, and even AI-friendly Trump administration officials are starting to retreat as an artificial intelligence backlash gathers pace across the United States.
From Barron's ● May 19, 2026
"Maybe I was rebelling against everything, but not knowing what I was trying to aim for at the same time."
From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2026
Lily used honey these days, rebelling against a product pretending to be maple syrup without a speck of the real thing in it.
From "It All Comes Down to This" by Karen English
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