rebellion
noun
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Plenty of teenagers rebel against their parents in all kinds of ways. But a rebellion usually involves a group. Armed rebellions are usually put down by a country's armed forces, or at least kept from expanding beyond a small area. The American War of Independence was first viewed by the British as a minor rebellion that would soon run its course, but this particular rebellion led to a full-fledged revolution--that is, the overthrow of a government. Rebellion, armed or otherwise, has often alerted those in power that those they control are very unhappy.
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Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 9 Apr. 2024
Although Garza’s rebellion was crushed, his ideas of democracy, equity, freedom of the press, and anti-imperialism would find new life in 1910 when another cross-border revolution led by Francisco Madero succeeded in toppling Díaz.
—TIME, 9 Apr. 2024
Since then, the government has faced a new rebellion in the Amhara region—among some of the same groups that assisted the government in neighboring Tigray—which is fast making the region ungovernable.
—Alex De Waal, Foreign Affairs, 8 Apr. 2024
Rostov-on-Don was briefly occupied by Wagner troops during the private military group’s brief rebellion against the Kremlin earlier this year.
—Anna Chernova, Victoria Butenko and Sophie Tanno, CNN, 5 Apr. 2024
Co-written and co-directed by the Wachowskis, the film revealed how our world was a simulated reality with humans actually being used as batteries for intelligent machines and how one messiah-like figure named Neo was chosen to lead a rebellion.
—Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Apr. 2024
But the vote there succeeded on a jarringly slim margin for Johnson and the House GOP leadership and ignited a rebellion among far-right extremists in the lower chamber, testing the speaker’s tenuous grip on his conference.
—Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2024
The familiar trick of casting female rebellion as mental instability inspired her to make a film that eventually attracted the interest of Judd Apatow, who became the executive producer.
—Ginia Bellafante, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024
Valenzuela, who grew up in Chile, cites anti-poetry—a literary rebellion against traditional forms—to emphasize the company’s ethos of flouting industry conventions.
—Kylie Robison, Fortune, 28 Mar. 2024
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“Rebellion.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rebellion. Accessed 18 Apr. 2024.
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