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rebellion

noun as in disobedience; revolt

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The administration’s obsession with standardized tests led to a rebellion by parents, students, teachers, principals and even superintendents who spoke out against the policies.

Some of them were seeking a life free of prosecution, though many in the US viewed this repatriation as a pragmatic way to avoid slave rebellions, which is a less rosy motivation.

He fostered curiosity and instilled an underlying sense of rebellion.

From Ozy

In late August, an anonymous developer sporting a cartoon panda chef avatar led a crypto rebellion.

From Fortune

According to some scholars, the settlement stemmed from the rebellion and regrouping of people who fled the collapse of large, urban areas in the southern Levant, modern-day Israel and Palestine.

And, just like Katniss, we need rules that make solidarity a centerpiece of shared life, not a desperate act of rebellion.

It may have looked like paradise, but a rebellion was brewing around the Davises.

Since then, Kisangani has been the epicenter of nearly every rebellion in the Congo.

The Hunger Games franchise is already a deeply political saga, chronicling a growing rebellion against a tyrannical regime.

Democratic rebellion has transformed America in important ways.

For several months he remained under a political cloud, charged with incompetency to quell the Philippine Rebellion.

Primo de Rivera, who believed the rebellion to be fast on the wane, shipped back to Spain 7,000 troops.

The rebellion spread to their district, and many of the natives on and about the estate were eager to join in the movement.

For good or ill, the torrent of rebellion was suffered to break loose, and it soon engulfed a continent.

The anger and rebellion had been comatose in these years of freedom, but the maturer brain was the more uneasy, at times appalled.

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On this page you'll find 44 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to rebellion, such as: dissent, insurgency, insurrection, revolution, uprising, and apostasy.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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