insurrectionary

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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

Before long, he’s assembled an army of similarly intelligent dogs, an insurrectionary force plotting revenge for millennia of selective breeding.

From Slate • Jun. 7, 2017

He set the insurrectionary tone in the show’s opening sequence, taking a box cutter to a mock-up of Botticelli’s “Venus and Mars” and slicing out the portrait of Venus.

From New York Times • Jan. 2, 2017

On August 6, 1861, the President confirmed a resolution of Congress as to "the confiscation of property used for insurrectionary purposes."

From Dictatorship vs. Democracy (Terrorism and Communism) by Trotzky, Leon Davidovich