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uprising

[uhp-rahy-zing, uhp-rahy-zing] / ˈʌpˌraɪ zɪŋ, ʌpˈraɪ zɪŋ /


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Shinsegae chairman Chung Yong-jin bowed in apology over the incident during the Tuesday news briefing and asked for forgiveness from bereaved families of the victims of the May 18 Democratic Uprising.

From Barron's • May 26, 2026

It was this same practicality that pushed her to get a job at the Inner City Cultural Center, a multicultural theater company born in the wake of the Watts Uprising.

From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2026

Holocaust Memorial Museum had used the term in translating a text about the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising into Arabic.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025

Back on home soil, Zo's underground work continued but it would be her influence during the Warsaw Uprising - a rebellion launched against the Nazis on 1 August 1944 - that proved most significant.

From BBC • Aug. 3, 2024

In the interval between the Boxer Uprising and the Russo-Japanese War, Mr. Comfort began to dwell upon the great fundamental facts of world-politics.

From She Buildeth Her House by Comfort, William Wistar




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