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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

Cash in circulation jumped after President Vladimir Putin announced a partial mobilisation in September 2022 and during a brief mutiny by the Wagner mercenary group in June 2023.

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 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

“Does Calliope say there’ll be a mutiny? Does she say the bird will prevail?”

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman

A cycle of ephemeral emperors, military mutinies and civil wars had begun, marring Rome’s third century.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 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

On July 23, he took the Belarusian president, Aleksandr G. Lukashenko, to Kronstadt, a city on an island outside St. Petersburg known for its early-20th-century history of mutinies.

From New York Times ● Aug. 5, 2023

They weren’t mutinies in the sense that soldiers attacked their officers, but were more like workmen’s strikes, in which entire units refused to return to the trenches or take part in new attacks.

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

He briefly mutinied, demanding back-pay for his soldiers, promotions and a political position for his brother.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2025

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

Indeed, in 1946 Indians in the British Navy had mutinied throughout the country.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022

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

In parts of his interview reported by Reuters earlier this week, he said the mutinying Russian mercenaries had headed for a nuclear base in pursuit of a backpack-sized atomic weapon.

From Reuters ● Jul. 14, 2023

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

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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