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Saudi Arabia intervened militarily against the Houthis a decade ago after the rebel group took over San’a and swath of territory during Yemen’s civil war.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026

A 29-year-old homemaker in the Houthi-held city of Hodeida, where rebel media said the plane had landed, said she was worried more conflict lay ahead, "without producing any results, just making the current crises worse".

From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026

Under the Obama administration, an international coalition targeting the Libyan regime of Muammar Gaddafi during the country’s 2011 civil war struck his fleeing convoy, leading to his capture and killing by rebel fighters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2026

A24 has positioned itself as the film industry’s rebel, funding new and emerging talents producing thought-provoking ideas.

From Salon ● Jun. 23, 2026

“She’s the only one not looking at the camera—which gives you a sense that there’s something outside the frame. Is she a rebel? Or does this hint at the whole family’s spirit?”

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng

Dreamers, for example, fantasise about the future too much, while rebels feel a lack of control and so procrastinate in protest.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

The rebels control Yemen's capital Sanaa and much of the north, including most population centres, while the internationally recognised government holds much of the south.

From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026

More than two years ago, the rebels made a series of sweeping gains, but they have since been put on the back foot.

From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026

Germain mismanaged the land campaign against the American rebels.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026

We later heard that Major Knowlton of the rebels had led two hundred men to Charlestown to assault it; they making their way across the mill-dam.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

One of the main reasons colonists rebelled against the crown was that they wanted more Indigenous land—they wanted to move farther west into North America, but the king was telling them no.

From Slate ● Jul. 3, 2026

Paraguay’s national anthem starts by stating that the people of the Americas were “oppressed for three centuries” until they rebelled.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026

Haiti became the first independent black nation in the Americas in 1804, after enslaved people rebelled against their French masters in what was then the colony of Saint-Domingue.

From Barron's ● May 28, 2026

Sylvia has rebelled with her own version of their mother’s apple cake.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 5, 2026

“Are you one of the angels who rebelled so long ago?”

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman

Speakers promoting AI are getting booed at universities, voters are rebelling against data centers, and even AI-friendly Trump administration officials are starting to retreat as an artificial intelligence backlash gathers pace across the United States.

From Barron's ● May 19, 2026

"Maybe I was rebelling against everything, but not knowing what I was trying to aim for at the same time."

From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2026

A woman rebelling from a marriage or striking out from the role of motherhood or otherwise trying to find meaning.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2026

Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara told Kennedy that, as a political compromise, to keep the Joint Chiefs of Staff from rebelling, he needed 1,000.

From Slate ● Feb. 3, 2026

The careless, Braveheart type, rebelling in a desperate attempt to defy their diagnosis before it all comes to an end.

From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott