militant
Example Sentences
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In the tumultuous first months after the revolution, a group of militant university students loyal to Khomeini occupied the US embassy.
From BBC
The Taliban government has denied harbouring militants and its spokesperson has called for "dialogue" to resolve a previously simmering conflict that Pakistan's defence minister said on Friday was now "open war".
From Barron's
We left out the parts that didn’t fit the immigrant narrative: that we missed Iran; that the Muslims we knew weren’t militant.
Pakistan has been pressing Taliban authorities in Kabul to halt what it says are attacks by Afghan forces and the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, or TTP, a group of Pakistani militants based across the border.
That October, militant abolitionist John Brown attempted to seize guns and start a revolt of enslaved people to destroy American slavery.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
