renegades

noun

plural of renegade
as in deserters
a person who abandons a cause or organization usually without right a band of renegades who had deserted their infantry units and were making their way to Mexico

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Recent Examples of renegades In short, this list reminded me that our radicals and renegades are the best thing about this great nation. — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 6 July 2026 But in order to remain a meaningful platform for creative renegades, the festival needs to also take risks. — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 11 Feb. 2026 People didn’t come to the series with a working knowledge of the State Department, ready to see what the renegades were like. — Debora Cahn, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2026 VCs raining money on said brilliant renegades, despite signals that the market wasn’t quite mature enough and money was being lit on fire? — Cortney Harding, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025 But a few renegades creatively defected across the pond, looking instead at America for inspiration. — Leah Dolan, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2025 The men who once styled themselves renegades increasingly resembled every other hyper-online young guy—gaming, memeing, trading. — Clara Molot, Vanity Fair, 17 Mar. 2026 Fleeing persecution in this little schoolhouse, we were suddenly transformed into renegades, dissidents. — Chandler Fritz, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025 There are Sixties rock bands like the Sonics and the Small Faces, and pioneering hippie renegades like Love or the Thirteenth Floor Elevators. — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 24 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for renegades
  1. deserters
  2. traitors
  3. rebels
  4. insurgents
Noun
  • And within his own country’s history, particularly, Dhont discovered the fates that met would-be deserters who were caught — brutal sentences often leading to death.
    — David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 12 May 2026
  • Harry Truman granted amnesty to certain World War II deserters, while Jimmy Carter granted pardons to hundreds of thousands of individuals who dodged the draft during the Vietnam War.
    — Stewart Ulrich, The Conversation, 15 Dec. 2025
Definition of deserters
Noun
  • Just one more thing … this organization does not tolerate traitors!
    — Gina Kalsi, PEOPLE, 24 June 2026
  • Keep your actual and suspected traitors closer – the non-loyal, uncommitted, secretive, suspicious, dishonest, deceitful, chronically negative, and regularly undermining.
    — Peter D. Banko, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
Definition of traitors
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Definition of insurgents

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