mutiny
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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
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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
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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
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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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