separatist
noun
Examples of separatist in a Sentence
Amanda Coletta, Washington Post, 10 Apr. 2024
The pro-Kremlin leader has also subdued the Chechen separatist movement that fought for independence from Russia for almost two decades.
—Jack Guy, CNN, 8 Apr. 2024
First, Iranian airstrikes targeted what Tehran described as bases for the Sunni separatist group Jaish al-Adl in southwestern Pakistan on Tuesday.
—Habibullah Khan, ABC News, 20 Jan. 2024
The Baluch Liberation Army, an ethnic separatist group that's operated in the region since 2000, said in a statement the strikes targeted and killed its people.
—John Bacon, USA TODAY, 18 Jan. 2024
The season focuses on the arrival of white separatists, led by businessman Ethan Zobelle (Adam Arkin) and his henchman A.J. Weston (Henry Rollins), who hope to drive SAMCRO out of Charming.
—Ew Staff, EW.com, 8 Jan. 2024
This past winter, the FBI unsealed an indictment accusing an Indian government employee of orchestrating a murder-for-hire assassination attempt of a Sikh separatist activist in New York City.
—Sandhya Dirks, NPR, 30 Mar. 2024
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has finally managed to clinch an agreement with a group of Catalan lawmakers to pass an amnesty for hundreds of separatists, ending more than six months negotiations that have paralyzed parliament.
—Rodrigo Orihuela, Bloomberg.com, 14 Mar. 2024
But Russia, which was once closely allied with Armenia, has become increasingly friendly with Azerbaijan, essentially standing by as Azerbaijan took over full control of the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh, which had been under the control of Armenian separatists for more than three decades.
—Ivan Nechepurenko Sergey Ponomarev, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2024
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1608, in the meaning defined above
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