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rebellion

[ri-bel-yuhn] / rɪˈbɛl jən /


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National press called the strike an “industrial Woodstock” and treated it as a generational rebellion as much as a labor dispute.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

That stylistic rebellion extended to Arnold as well.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

Yet he appreciates there is another side to the photographs, and to the rebellion they record.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

Curated by former Vogue editor-in-chief Edward Enninful, it brings together more than 100 works by nearly 70 artists, photographers and designers to examine a decade of creativity and rebellion.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

Warriors were now in place from every world where Lord Asriel’s rebellion had supporters; mechanics and artificers were fueling aircraft, loading weapons, and calibrating sights and measures.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman

The federal government was given the responsibility for putting down rebellions, which in practice meant crushing slave uprisings and resistance.

From Salon ● May 14, 2026

Weapons from the former Yugoslavia helped drive the Libyan civil wars after 2011, later fueling rebellions in Mali and across the Sahel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 28, 2026

The longer struggle against slavery in the Western Hemisphere involved centuries of resistance through rebellions, wars, sabotage, and self-emancipation by enslaved people themselves, a story that extends far beyond the U.S.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 4, 2026

Suriname, on the north coast of the South American continent, has been plagued by rebellions and coups since independence in 1975.

From Barron's ● Dec. 1, 2025

Revenants from forgotten wars, lost causes, failed rebellions, a brotherhood of the failed and the fallen, the disgraced and the disinherited.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin


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