insurrectionary

Example Sentences

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"The defendant is deemed to have played a significant role in the insurrectionary acts of Yoon and others by ensuring, at least formally, compliance with the procedural requirement," Judge Lee said in a televised sentencing.

From Barron's • Jan. 21, 2026

He added that Tchiroma Bakary's "accomplices responsible for an insurrectionary plan" will also face legal action.

From BBC • Oct. 28, 2025

While many of the Jailhouse Lawyers Speak leaders identified as prison abolitionists, their approach accepted that ending mass incarceration is a long, complicated political struggle, not the product of one insurrectionary event.

From Salon • Oct. 4, 2018

He seemed to wield his horn like hot iron; his book of compositions, meanwhile, read as an insurrectionary tract, while fusing concepts from John Coltrane and Joe Henderson.

From New York Times • Jan. 11, 2018

The Royalists and the Girondins had combined and had carried the town hall and established an insurrectionary and unelected Municipal Government.

From The French Revolution by Belloc, Hilaire