freedom fighter

Example Sentences

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As a lifelong pacifist, Senesh was hardly an obvious choice as a freedom fighter.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 17, 2025

The entrepreneur, who was born in Germany and lives in New Zealand, has described himself as an "internet freedom fighter".

From BBC • Aug. 15, 2024

His fellow freedom fighter and inmate Tokyo Sexwale recounted the story on the 2019 podcast “Dolly Parton’s America.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 29, 2024

His father served in the Navy at the end of World War II, and his mother was a Hungarian freedom fighter whose parents were killed by the Russians.

From New York Times • Jul. 21, 2023

But in the same way that a freedom fighter subordinates his own family to the family of the people, he must subordinate his own individual feelings to the movement.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela