rebellion
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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
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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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