rebel
Example Sentences
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Yet he returned for the first time in October, almost a year to the day after longtime leader Bashar al-Assad was toppled in a lightning rebel offensive -- ending almost 14 years of brutal civil war.
From Barron's
Scripts were packed with bad-boy rebels, spoiled teen queens and uncool misfits of all kinds.
From Salon
A “smart, energetic young girl,” in Ms. DuBois’s words, the future Mrs. Stanton was a natural rebel who hated being told “no.”
Her father, who as a teenager in Tallinn began to rebel against Sovietization, insisted on teaching Stasevska and her two younger brothers to speak Ukrainian at home.
From Los Angeles Times
The rebel group isn’t formally covered by the peace agreement, but Rwanda was expected to rein in its proxy.
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