How to Use insurgence in a Sentence

insurgence

noun
  • But how come the progressive insurgence that torpedoed the first effort failed this time around?
    — Jeremy Stahl, Slate Magazine, 4 May 2017
  • The beginning and end of the genome boom Genetics at the turn of the century felt like an insurgence.
    — Matthew Herper, STAT, 9 Jan. 2020
  • More than 100 people have been charged for their participation in the insurgence.
    — Mike Brest, Washington Examiner, 9 Feb. 2021
  • Then in college, K-pop just made this huge insurgence, completely eclipsing everything else in the East.
    — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 10 Feb. 2017
  • With the insurgence of social media and online shopping, the demand for clothes inspired by straight-off-the-runway trends without the runway price tags has grown.
    — Emma Seymour, Good Housekeeping, 21 Apr. 2022
  • The insurgence on Capitol Hill is the most obvious signal yet that white supremacy is an attack on democracy.
    — Dahleen Glanton, chicagotribune.com, 3 Mar. 2021
  • The insurgence captures Queen Gudrún (Nicole Kidman) and pursues the boy.
    — Jesse Hassenger, The Week, 22 Apr. 2022
  • Second, staff taking a grievance, in public, over the head of the director, to the trustees, was once a nuke-level insurgence followed by warp-speed retaliation.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 19 Aug. 2020
  • As Warren’s remarks on Friday indicated, that insurgence had moved onto other things.
    — Jeremy Stahl, Slate Magazine, 4 May 2017
  • But the insurgence of AI is actually upending those assumptions.
    — Jake Angelo, Fortune, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Dozens of police officers who were at the Capitol when a swath of protesters descended upon them are recovering from their injuries nearly a week after the insurgence.
    — Mike Brest, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2021
  • But the company has carved out a section of the market that’s fairly defendable, and it may be well served by targeting budget-conscious consumers who are overwhelmed by the insurgence of online-video subscriptions.
    — Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2019
  • In fact, the insurgence, Dr Boeteng says, reinforced the fact that Black people are in constant survival mode and that has devastating physical ramifications (see above).
    — Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com, 19 Jan. 2021
  • The insurgence at the Capitol, which was timed to disrupt the certification of the Electoral College for Biden, led to a lockdown of the building, temporarily halting the process.
    — Mike Brest, Washington Examiner, 14 Jan. 2021
  • Friday’s decree represents the latest purge of state institutions—an act Erdogan claims is necessary to control security threats and prevent another insurgence.
    — Aria Bendix, The Atlantic, 14 July 2017
  • Hotel Figueroa remained open and operating amid the insurgence of the pandemic in 2020 to serve medical personnel and stranded travelers amid related health and safety protocols.
    — Michele Herrmann, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2021
  • Jonathan Humphreys, 27, has been under investigation for several months, since Google geolocation data placed at least one of his devices inside the Capitol the afternoon of the violent insurgence, the affidavit states.
    — Kristina Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Mar. 2022
  • The letter appears twelve days after a coordinated insurgence breached the Gaza envelope, its members killing more than 1,100 Israelis and abducting 251, and just prior to Israel’s ground invasion of the Gaza Strip.
    — David Velasco, Harpers Magazine, 18 Dec. 2023
  • Ditto the echoes of The Civil War, also examining a battle that pit brother against brother, and The Vietnam War, in which America became the occupying imperial force failing to understand or successfully combat a domestic insurgence.
    — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 6 Nov. 2025

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