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anarchist

[an-er-kist] / ˈæn ər kɪst /
NOUN
person who opposes the idea of government and laws
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The real-life character most successfully integrated into the narrative flow is the firebrand anarchist Emma Goldman, played with sobriety mixed with fervor by Shaina Taub, the author and star of the musical “Suffs.”

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 17, 2025

Kushner's Creation Lake is a spy thriller which sees an American woman infiltrate a radical anarchist collective in rural France.

From BBC Sep. 16, 2024

Outside of the fluttering romance plot and teen hijinks, Kat’s anarchist vibe was bitingly cool, self-assured and unyielding in her feminism and beliefs.

From Salon Apr. 8, 2024

“I feel like if I raise those concerns, they want to put a tinfoil hat on me and they want to say I’m an anarchist or an insurrectionist,” Crye said.

From Seattle Times Feb. 29, 2024

I read a few books about revolutionaries: Che Guevara, Emma Goldman, an odd book titled Mutual Aid by Peter Kropotkin, who was an anarchist, and a book by Alexander Berkman titled ABC of Anarchism.

From "Hole in My Life" by Jack Gantos

Tattered sweaters, linen T-shirts, parachute shirts and “bondage suits” are printed with slogans that read “Only anarchists are pretty” and “Anarchist punk gang.”

From Los Angeles Times May 18, 2026

He discovered a public more concerned with Progressive Era anti-monopoly reforms that Republicans cast as anti-business, a postwar economic slump, and acts of domestic terrorism committed by anarchists.

From Slate Mar. 10, 2026

It wasn’t anarchists that ended the ’70s malaise.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 9, 2025

He is part of a network called the Jordan Valley Activists – Moshe Sharvit calls them "anarchists" - offering solidarity, and working for peaceful co-existence with the Palestinians.

From BBC May 11, 2025

On the night of November 7, 1919, Palmer launched his campaign of rounding up suspected anarchists and Communist agitators for the purpose of deporting them from the United States.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler




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