insurgent
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With much of the country also under the control of Islamist insurgent group Al-Shabaab, little progress has been made on organising elections beyond a few localised pockets.
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026
Yet Raman managed to pull off a hard-fought campaign, with Pratt as an unexpectedly strong insurgent from the right — a winning streak that continued this week when she scored two key endorsements.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
In 1776, Washington was an insurgent leader who understood that survival meant victory.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
It seemed a sure thing a few weeks ago that Abdul El-Sayed, the insurgent progressive challenger in Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary, was leading the race going away.
From Slate ● Jul. 18, 2026
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
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He died from a fever in 1824 in Missolonghi, in modern day Greece, after joining Greek insurgents the year prior to fight a war of independence against the Ottoman Empire.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
Only the federal army has military drones in the country of 130 million people, and they have been deployed repeatedly against insurgents operating in several regions.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
Thanat, who is also National Intelligence Agency director, said insurgents were also testing the readiness of security forces.
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
In April 2025, the governor of Nigeria's embattled Borno state, Babagana Zulum, alleged that informants and collaborators for Boko Haram insurgents were operating within the country's armed forces, political class and local communities.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Because really, Werner thinks, they are all insurgents, all partisans, every single person they see.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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