insurgent

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Those delegates went on to back reforms to the party's primary process that made it easier for insurgent candidacies like Jackson to compete for the party's presidential nomination without backing from the Democratic establishment.

From BBC • Feb. 17, 2026

“I think Josh will forever be an insurgent filmmaker and I don’t think the world would be right otherwise.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 8, 2026

"They are fragmented, and they have no leadership," she added of the insurgent groups.

From Barron's • Dec. 17, 2025

The U.S. also stations commandos and other forces in Somalia itself, where they help elite local troops fighting al-Shabaab—an Islamist insurgent group affiliated with al Qaeda—and the Somali branch of Islamic State.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 1, 2025

While Jack was on leave taking care of Sophie, Hoagland told me how Jack had been abducted in Cyprus by a red insurgent faction in sixty-four.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee