rebellion
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“It’s not actually rebellion, what they’re doing,” said director Boots Riley.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026
There is normal teenage rebellion, and there is radicalization, and sometimes it’s really hard to distinguish between the two, Dehghani said.
From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2026
By highlighting Eve’s rebellion alongside her beauty, ads framed her as a fashion heroine.
From Salon • May 17, 2026
This may simply be agreement with Salah's complaints about falling standards rather than rebellion in the ranks, but once again the narrative, plus the conclusions drawn from it, are spectacularly unhelpful for Slot.
From BBC • May 16, 2026
No less an authority than Oliver Cromwell is said to have remarked that there would have been no Irish rebellion ‘if there had been an Earl of Cork in every province’.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
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