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mutiny

[myoot-n-ee] / ˈmjut n i /




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Cash in circulation jumped after President Vladimir Putin announced a partial mobilisation in September 2022 and during a brief mutiny by the Wagner mercenary group in June 2023.

From BBC Jul. 18, 2026

He was also sent to negotiate with the head of the Wagner mercenary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, who led a short and bloody mutiny in June 2023.

From BBC Feb. 6, 2026

Alekseyev, who had longtime links with Wagner, was detained after the mutiny and later released.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 6, 2026

I proclaimed, embarking on a brief and ineffective cane mutiny.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 18, 2025

All the same, they have nothing to do with mutiny or lead-swinging.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque

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

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 12, 2026

Alliance shifts and mutinies occur, but leadership is hard to fake and Pipe is a born boss.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 29, 2023

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

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

In 326 BCE, his exhausted troops mutinied and refused to advance to the Ganges River in central India as Alexander desired.

From Textbooks Apr. 19, 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

In parts of his interview reported by Reuters earlier this week, he said the mutinying Russian mercenaries had headed for a nuclear base in pursuit of a backpack-sized atomic weapon.

From Reuters Jul. 14, 2023

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

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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