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mutiny

[myoot-n-ee] / ˈmjut n i /




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And amid the Ukraine war he was despatched to negotiate with Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin during his attempted mutiny against Russian military top brass in 2023.

From Barron's Feb. 6, 2026

But in the case of Alekseyev, whose links to Wagner made him a suspect in probes following Prigozhin’s failed mutiny, some analysts said Friday’s attack could have been a case of delayed retribution.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 6, 2026

Which, as a viewer anticipates, leads to a mutiny.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 11, 2025

Regional power Nigeria assisted in thwarting the mutiny, saying its fighter jets had helped "dislodge the coup plotters from the National TV and a military camp" following a request from Benin's government.

From BBC Dec. 8, 2025

Aware of the rivalry between the two schools, employers searched for some middle ground of impartiality, fearful that any inadvertent slip might cause a mutiny from one half of the work force or the other.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger

Puckish and determined, Hockney didn’t shrink from mutinies small or large.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 12, 2026

Among the American troops, there were mutinies and desertions and soldiers simply going home when their enlistment was up.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 14, 2025

Rights groups also warn that civilians usually bear the brunt of these mutinies.

From Washington Times Jul. 28, 2023

The days I don’t, it’s because of the workers I talk to and the small mutinies I see — at Amazon and in nursing homes, truck yards, schools, factories and grocery stores.

From New York Times Feb. 17, 2022

Following the defeat at the Chemin des Dames, French soldiers engaged in what historians have called “the mutinies of 1917.”

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman

Around 3 p.m., she and the two other employees working that day mutinied.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 11, 2025

Peng began as a commander in the China-backed Burmese Communist Party, but he mutinied in 1989 as Chinese support stopped, breaking the Burmese Communist Party up into several armed insurgent groups.

From BBC Nov. 22, 2023

There was further controversy last year when members of the Spanish women's team mutinied against their coach Jorge Vilda.

From Reuters Aug. 31, 2023

A few years after the showdown at Worms, unpaid troops in the Habsburg Emperor’s army mutinied, then sacked Rome and the Vatican.

From Slate Apr. 21, 2023

Rinaldi said that the French had mutinied and troops marched on Paris.

From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway

On 7 December, mutinying soldiers claimed to have overthrown the Benin president.

From BBC Apr. 16, 2026

By the end of his reign, Roman armies in Gaul and Hispania were mutinying.

From Textbooks Apr. 19, 2023

But because I apparently can't make it every single night without my family mutinying, I decided to take its elements and put them into a bite I can have every night.

From Salon Jul. 24, 2022

It’s the captain’s job to ensure their ship is stocked with food, water, and ammo lest they run the risk of their crew mutinying from a lack of provisions.

From The Verge Apr. 29, 2022

They were always showing Columbus discovering America, having one helluva time getting old Ferdinand and Isabella to lend him the dough to buy ships with, and then the sailors mutinying on him and all.

From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger




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