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mutiny

[myoot-n-ee] / ˈmjut n i /




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The thwarted mutiny also highlights something the ruling junta may not want to admit - just how dependent on Moscow it has become for security.

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026

Life returned to normal in Niger's capital Niamey on Sunday, after the military regime and its Russian paramilitary partners put down a mutiny by soldiers.

From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026

For Niger's government, Saturday's mutiny highlights that the military is dealing not only with an external insurgency, but also signs of discontent within its own ranks.

From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026

Before Putin confidant Yevgeny Prigozhin and the Wagner Group turned against Mr. Putin in their infamous mutiny of June 2023, Prigozhin took to Telegram to denounce Russia’s generals.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026

General Philippe Pétain, who replaced Nivelle as commander in chief, dealt with the mutiny more through persuasion than punishment.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman

Puckish and determined, Hockney didn’t shrink from mutinies small or large.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

The latest controversy adds to a list which includes sinkings, crashes, mutinies, and the controversial 1877 dead heat, when the result was decided in court.

From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2025

Given these conditions, China has struggled in recent years with strikes, mutinies and violence on its squid ships, which feed the world’s growing demand for calamari.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2023

Rights groups also warn that civilians usually bear the brunt of these mutinies.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 28, 2023

Is what happened like the mutinies that happened on ships long ago?

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

Peng began as a commander in the China-backed Burmese Communist Party, but he mutinied in 1989 as Chinese support stopped, breaking the Burmese Communist Party up into several armed insurgent groups.

From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2023

There was further controversy last year when members of the Spanish women's team mutinied against their coach Jorge Vilda.

From Reuters ● Aug. 31, 2023

A few years after the showdown at Worms, unpaid troops in the Habsburg Emperor’s army mutinied, then sacked Rome and the Vatican.

From Slate ● Apr. 21, 2023

After his own soldiers mutinied, however, Alexander withdrew to Babylon, where he died in 323 BCE.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

But when he tried to get up, his body mutinied against movement.

From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier

On 7 December, mutinying soldiers claimed to have overthrown the Benin president.

From BBC ● Apr. 16, 2026

By the end of his reign, Roman armies in Gaul and Hispania were mutinying.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

But because I apparently can't make it every single night without my family mutinying, I decided to take its elements and put them into a bite I can have every night.

From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2022

It’s the captain’s job to ensure their ship is stocked with food, water, and ammo lest they run the risk of their crew mutinying from a lack of provisions.

From The Verge ● Apr. 29, 2022

They were always showing Columbus discovering America, having one helluva time getting old Ferdinand and Isabella to lend him the dough to buy ships with, and then the sailors mutinying on him and all.

From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger


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