anarchist
Example Sentences
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A climax was reached in San Francisco in November 1917, at what was dubbed the “Hindu-German Conspiracy Trial,” in which Indian and German nationals were prosecuted for plotting and abetting anarchist violence.
Gen. Avi Bluth, who heads the Israeli military command that oversees the West Bank, said the attacks by what he called “anarchist fringe youth” were unacceptable and extremely serious.
However, in context, it is clear that Alter is criticizing a strain of anarchist activism in the United States.
From Salon
According to Mark Bray, a professor of history at Rutgers University, the term was picked up across Europe in the 1980s and ’90s and adopted by a broad swath of leftists, anarchists and anti-authoritarian socialists.
From Los Angeles Times
Kushner's Creation Lake is a spy thriller which sees an American woman infiltrate a radical anarchist collective in rural France.
From BBC
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