INSURGENTS Synonyms: 28 Similar and Opposite Words

insurgents

noun

plural of insurgent

as in rebels

a person who rises up against authority the government subjected the insurgents to the most inhuman torture imaginable

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Recent Examples of insurgents The establishment’s theory of the case has always been that popular insurgents are too risky, too unpolished, too outside the lane. — Tad Devine, Fortune, 7 July 2026 The incumbents built their dominance in a training-centric world that is giving way to an inference-centric one, and that transition is where insurgents find room. — Steve McDowell, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026 As left-wing insurgents make inroads in New York and elsewhere, their campaigns are confronting legacy institutions led by people of color. — ABC News, 28 June 2026 Sistan-Baluchistan, which borders Pakistan and Afghanistan, has long seen clashes between security forces, insurgents and drug smugglers. — Alex Sundby, CBS News, 30 June 2026 But Warsaw and Kyiv are locked in a row over Ukraine renaming a military unit after World War II insurgents that killed thousands of Poles. — Prashant Rao, semafor.com, 25 June 2026 Nine American soldiers died and 27 others were injured while fighting a battle against 200 Taliban insurgents in the village of Wanat in Afghanistan’s Waygal Valley. — USA Today, 29 June 2026 Syria has been without a parliament since the December 2024 offensive by insurgents led by al-Sharaa’s now defunct Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group, which ended the Assad family’s five-decade dynasty. — Ghaith Alsayed, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026 Fujimori, 51, is the daughter of late President Alberto Fujimori, who governed the country with an iron fist from 1990 to 2000 and was credited with defeating Maoist insurgents and taming runaway hyperinflation. — Reuters, NBC news, 4 July 2026

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He was convicted in 2009 of human rights abuses in the fight against the rebels, and later of corruption charges.

— ABC News, ABC News, 3 July 2026
He was convicted in 2009 of human rights abuses in the fight against the rebels and, later on, corruption charges.

— Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 3 July 2026

Definition of rebels

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Or was July 4, 1776, for the revolutionaries who founded the US, actually an undistinguished day?

— Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 3 July 2026
Trade the tricorn hats, bonnets and homespun shirts for flip flops, sneakers and soccer jerseys, and the intrepid revolutionaries of 1776 would have looked a lot like the people of 2026.

— Katherine Ott, The Conversation, 2 July 2026

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