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mutiny

[myoot-n-ee] / ˈmjut n i /




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The thwarted mutiny also highlights something the ruling junta may not want to admit - just how dependent on Moscow it has become for security.

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026

In a report on the August 29 mutiny, the Timbuktu Institute argued the junta's rhetoric sits uncomfortably with the reality.

From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026

Ochieng said the mutiny "demonstrates deep divisions and grievances within the security apparatus", in a country whose soldiers are "constantly in the line of fire, fighting militants".

From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026

For Niger's government, Saturday's mutiny highlights that the military is dealing not only with an external insurgency, but also signs of discontent within its own ranks.

From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026

Giggling was a form of mutiny to the nun and she quelled it with a wintery narrowing of her eyes.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

A cycle of ephemeral emperors, military mutinies and civil wars had begun, marring Rome’s third century.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 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

The latest controversy adds to a list which includes sinkings, crashes, mutinies, and the controversial 1877 dead heat, when the result was decided in court.

From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2025

On July 23, he took the Belarusian president, Aleksandr G. Lukashenko, to Kronstadt, a city on an island outside St. Petersburg known for its early-20th-century history of mutinies.

From New York Times ● Aug. 5, 2023

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

He briefly mutinied, demanding back-pay for his soldiers, promotions and a political position for his brother.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2025

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2025

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

But when he tried to get up, his body mutinied against movement.

From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier

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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