insurgent

Example Sentences

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I didn’t want to be an identity insurgent.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 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

To some surprise, the insurgent party's leadership backed scrapping the London to Liverpool plan, though it would have supported an underground station in Greater Manchester.

From BBC • Jan. 14, 2026

Conversations around the effort to defeat insurgent mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani have often started with a seemingly unrelated question: “Do you summer in the city?”

From Salon • Oct. 30, 2025

From time to time, Mammy showed her the old, crumpled newspaper clippings in it, and pamphlets that Ahmad had managed to collect from insurgent groups and resistance organizations headquartered in Pakistan.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini