rebel

I like the idea of a rebel as L.A. mayor, but the job is hard enough with City Council allies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

Neither Eritrea’s foreign minister nor a Tigrayan rebel spokesman responded to requests for comment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

In the intervening time, a number of rebel tours to South Africa took place, with huge consequences for the players involved.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

The headquarters of Tigrai TV, seen as the key outlet for the rebel authorities in the Tigrayan capital, Mekelle, was hit by a drone on Sunday.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

And not rebellion as it was now, with rebel groups hiding out in the wilderness, but rather rebellion in the sense of entire kingdoms rising up against Adarlan—as it should have been from the start.

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas

At the same time escalating tensions in the Middle East, with ongoing strikes between the Iran-backed Houthi rebels and Saudi Arabia, have pushed oil prices higher.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

He was hailed by many as a hero for bringing an end to nearly three decades of civil war when Tamil Tiger rebels were crushed in 2009, during his first term as president.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

In 2022, after years of stalemate, the government and rebels signed on to a ceasefire.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026

Investigators are looking into the possibility he began to radicalize in the war-torn country where Islamist rebels fought against the ruling Assad regime, the people said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

The British Army and Navy sang a rousing song called “Heart of Oak”; the rebels had writ one to counter it called “The Liberty Song.”

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

Unlike the majority of his generational cohort, he never rebelled against the establishment that promoted it.

From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2026

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

Many Americans in this 250th year of independence will look back proudly on those colonials who rebelled against British taxation by dumping tea in Boston Harbor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 2026

Still later, one more attempt was made to unseat Zeus: the Giants rebelled.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

The bond market, however, is rebelling against that premise—a selloff is sending yields higher and raising governments’ borrowing costs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

"I'm playing Caesar in the first film, leading the apes to freedom and rebelling and breaking out of the facility," he recalls.

From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026

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

When it came to creating this new government, rebelling against and pushing back against restrictions we had experienced under English common law, press freedom was seen to be essential.

From Slate ● Feb. 24, 2026

“I’m not rebelling, Mom,” I said, even though maybe I was doing that too.

From "The First Rule of Punk" by Celia C. Pérez