mutiny
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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
In 1971, he joined a mutiny against West Pakistani forces and declared independence for Bangladesh.
From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2025
I proclaimed, embarking on a brief and ineffective cane mutiny.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 18, 2025
Which, as a viewer anticipates, leads to a mutiny.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025
“Does Calliope say there’ll be a mutiny? Does she say the bird will prevail?”
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
Puckish and determined, Hockney didn’t shrink from mutinies small or large.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
Given these conditions, China has struggled in recent years with strikes, mutinies and violence on its squid ships, which feed the world’s growing demand for calamari.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2023
Rights groups also warn that civilians usually bear the brunt of these mutinies.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 28, 2023
In fact, she began many economic policies that flourished under Mr. Ramos, and he successfully defended Ms. Aquino’s fragile democratic government against repeated military mutinies.
From New York Times ● Jul. 31, 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
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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