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mutiny

[myoot-n-ee] / ˈmjut n i /




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Before Putin confidant Yevgeny Prigozhin and the Wagner Group turned against Mr. Putin in their infamous mutiny of June 2023, Prigozhin took to Telegram to denounce Russia’s generals.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 3, 2026

Seeing Samary revealed as the coup spokesman, Tévoédjrè was dismayed to realize he had sent a mutineer to stop a mutiny.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 12, 2026

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

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

This may work, if the images don't clash: Frieda viewed her marriage as a tight ship, but Lorenzo was plotting a mutiny.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

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

When Émile Janssens, the White commander of the Force Publique, the Belgian Congo’s security force, made clear to Black troops a few days after independence that White officers would remain in charge, soldiers mutinied.

From Textbooks Dec. 14, 2022

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

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

In other words, in waging endless war, Americans are also, in effect, mutinying against the planet.

From Salon Dec. 7, 2019

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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