insurrectionary

Example Sentences

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"The defendant is deemed to have played a significant role in the insurrectionary acts of Yoon and others by ensuring, at least formally, compliance with the procedural requirement," Judge Lee said in a televised sentencing.

From Barron's • Jan. 21, 2026

He added that Tchiroma Bakary's "accomplices responsible for an insurrectionary plan" will also face legal action.

From BBC • Oct. 28, 2025

But unlike Amber, the title character of 2006’s The Accidental—a hostile insurrectionary who blows up the complacency of an upper-middle-class family—Lux is gentle, observant, practical.

From Slate • Jan. 30, 2018

He seemed to wield his horn like hot iron; his book of compositions, meanwhile, read as an insurrectionary tract, while fusing concepts from John Coltrane and Joe Henderson.

From New York Times • Jan. 11, 2018

Even so late as April 10, 1861, Seward wrote officially to Charles Francis Adams, Minister to England: “Only an imperial and despotic government could subjugate thoroughly disaffected and insurrectionary members of the State.”

From The Women of the Confederacy by Underwood, J. L.