counterrevolutionary

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But he brings out the idiosyncratic joys of the Mets roster—even its counterrevolutionary cliques.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

In a 1991 book, “Panama: The Whole Story,” he described Noriega’s long-standing ties to U.S. intelligence agencies, which sought his help in arming the contras, a counterrevolutionary force in Nicaragua.

From Washington Post • Nov. 6, 2021

As one counterrevolutionary says, “I refuse to ignore individual lives for the sake of the superb and irrepressible unfolding of History.”

From New York Times • Jul. 6, 2021

But now it is a noisy, multifaceted earnestness, one that no longer bans dancing—or even simply jumping up and down with abandon when the mood strikes—as either blasphemous or counterrevolutionary.

From Slate • Mar. 3, 2021

“He might have confessed he visited us. Maybe that’s what they meant when they said they already had the information. They could say we were establishing counterrevolutionary ties.”

From "Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution" by Ji-li Jiang