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rebel

[reb-uhl, ri-bel] / ˈrɛb əl, rɪˈbɛl /






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Some patients are in areas of eastern Congo controlled by the M23 rebel group and are unreachable for government personnel.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 8, 2026

Here’s hoping it inspires a new generation of rebel filmmakers to take the wheel.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 8, 2026

It ruled "the temporary suspension" of bombings of rebel camps when there is intelligence information or other alerts about "the possible presence of children and adolescents."

From Barron's Sep. 3, 2026

George Washington and the Continental Congress hoped to sever French-speaking eastern Quebec from the rest of British Canada and bring it into the war as a 14th rebel colony.

From Salon Aug. 31, 2026

I should—in the course material for Overbearing Mothers 101, I'm probably the perfect example of a person most likely to rebel.

From "Starfish" by Akemi Dawn Bowman

U.S. stocks fell and Treasury yields hit multiyear highs after Yemeni rebels attacked Saudi Arabian energy facilities, pushing oil prices to their highest levels of the summer.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 8, 2026

U.S. oil prices reached their highest levels since the beginning of June on Tuesday after Saudi Arabia announced that a wave of attacks by Houthi rebels hit oil facilities.

From MarketWatch Sep. 8, 2026

In July, a fragile truce between the Houthis and Yemen's government fell apart after the rebels welcomed an Iranian plane to the capital Sanaa, setting off a spate of attacks.

From Barron's Sep. 6, 2026

Tech leaders, once seen as “the disrupters and rebels, were becoming the powers that be,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 3, 2026

But after learning about the fate of those rebels, the princess was spending most of her time in her rooms, and had declined Celaena’s repeated offers to go for walks.

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas

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

Sylvia has rebelled with her own version of their mother’s apple cake.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 5, 2026

He has decreed that the body of Polynices, Antigone’s brother, who had rebelled against the city, does not deserve a proper burial.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

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

Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara told Kennedy that, as a political compromise, to keep the Joint Chiefs of Staff from rebelling, he needed 1,000.

From Slate Feb. 3, 2026

Artists, musicians, writers, film makers and performers of all kinds are rebelling, one of the most profound forms of resistance to a repressive regime.

From Salon Jan. 1, 2026

Four MPs who were suspended from the Labour Party after rebelling against welfare reforms have had their whips restored.

From BBC Nov. 7, 2025

I could no longer pretend, fawn or wear the mask of servility, without my true self violently rebelling.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane




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