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rebel

[reb-uhl, ri-bel] / ˈrɛb əl, rɪˈbɛl /






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What next for Mali's military leaders after shock of rebel offensive?

From BBC Aug. 10, 2026

De la Espriella's combative approach has been met with defiance by dissident rebel groups.

From BBC Aug. 10, 2026

You’re a bit of a rebel and tend to find dress codes arbitrary.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 6, 2026

“Satan’s the original outlaw, right? He’s a rebel angel,” Alexandra told the outlet.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 15, 2026

He had not finished signing the last one when a rebel colonel appeared in the doorway leading a mule carrying two chests.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Central Command is reviewing 15 additional incidents during the campaign against Houthi rebels that could have caused civilian casualties.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 11, 2026

The rebels control the Yemeni capital Sanaa and much of northern Yemen, and have been battling Saudi-backed government troops in the country's south for more than a decade.

From Barron's Aug. 7, 2026

Further south of Ituri there are large areas held by the M23 rebels, a powerful militia that says it has managed to contain the outbreak.

From BBC Aug. 1, 2026

“We root for the rebels in ‘Star Wars’ and want them to defeat Darth Vader, or we side with the Fremen in ‘Dune.’

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 31, 2026

It is rumored that a great force of rebels approaches from the Carolinas.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

In Belle Époque Paris, the cabarets of Montmartre rebelled against industrial modernity and spawned an aggressive avant-garde sensibility.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

One of the main reasons colonists rebelled against the crown was that they wanted more Indigenous land—they wanted to move farther west into North America, but the king was telling them no.

From Slate Jul. 3, 2026

Paraguay’s national anthem starts by stating that the people of the Americas were “oppressed for three centuries” until they rebelled.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 25, 2026

Haiti became the first independent black nation in the Americas in 1804, after enslaved people rebelled against their French masters in what was then the colony of Saint-Domingue.

From Barron's May 28, 2026

The moment a situation became so that it exacted something of him, he rebelled.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright

Still, it’s promising sign that people are rebelling against Flock cameras.

From Salon Aug. 14, 2026

"I'm playing Caesar in the first film, leading the apes to freedom and rebelling and breaking out of the facility," he recalls.

From BBC Jul. 13, 2026

Speakers promoting AI are getting booed at universities, voters are rebelling against data centers, and even AI-friendly Trump administration officials are starting to retreat as an artificial intelligence backlash gathers pace across the United States.

From Barron's May 19, 2026

A woman rebelling from a marriage or striking out from the role of motherhood or otherwise trying to find meaning.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 13, 2026

That’s much more powerful than rebelling outside the system.

From "Legend" by Marie Lu




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