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anarchist

[an-er-kist] / ˈæn ər kɪst /
NOUN
person who opposes the idea of government and laws
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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.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 5, 2025

“Unrest” is colder still, a documentary-style rewind to a watch factory in 1870s Switzerland whose anarchist employees agitated for a better future that we know isn’t going to happen.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 7, 2024

Mr Bushnell had described himself as an anarchist, once writing that he "believed in the abolition of all hierarchal power structures" through legal means.

From BBC Mar. 2, 2024

“I feel like if I raise those concerns, they want to put a tinfoil hat on me and they want to say I’m an anarchist or an insurrectionist,” Crye said.

From Seattle Times Feb. 29, 2024

There’s surely an entry on the anarchist playwright Alfred Jarry, who once gave Picasso a Browning pistol—the gun favored by the anarchists.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day

The directors suggest Black Rock City has been visited upon by a plague of plutocrats and anarchists.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 7, 2026

Tattered sweaters, linen T-shirts, parachute shirts and “bondage suits” are printed with slogans that read “Only anarchists are pretty” and “Anarchist punk gang.”

From Los Angeles Times May 18, 2026

He discovered a public more concerned with Progressive Era anti-monopoly reforms that Republicans cast as anti-business, a postwar economic slump, and acts of domestic terrorism committed by anarchists.

From Slate Mar. 10, 2026

Naturally, a lot of it was focused on immigrants, hundreds of whom were deported under suspicion of being anarchists.

From Salon Dec. 21, 2025

I was particularly interested in Leon Czolgosz, a young man who had tried to join the anarchists but had been rejected by them.

From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers




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