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rebel

[reb-uhl, ri-bel] / ˈrɛb əl, rɪˈbɛl /






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Some patients are in areas of eastern Congo controlled by the M23 rebel group and are unreachable for government personnel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

Here’s hoping it inspires a new generation of rebel filmmakers to take the wheel.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

It ruled "the temporary suspension" of bombings of rebel camps when there is intelligence information or other alerts about "the possible presence of children and adolescents."

From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026

George Washington and the Continental Congress hoped to sever French-speaking eastern Quebec from the rest of British Canada and bring it into the war as a 14th rebel colony.

From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026

He named Colonel Gerineldo Márquez civil and military leader of Macondo and he went off to make contact with the rebel groups in the interior.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

But as European and U.S. manufacturers tightened controls to avert diversions by the Houthis and the Iranians, the Yemeni rebels turned to China, arms experts said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

The rebels seized control of the strategic Red Sea port city of Mocha on Thursday.

From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026

Bukavu, the capital of South Kivu province and one of DR Congo's most crowded hillside cities, was captured by M23 rebels in February last year.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

U.S. oil prices reached their highest levels since the beginning of June on Tuesday after Saudi Arabia announced that a wave of attacks by Houthi rebels hit oil facilities.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026

It is rumored that a great force of rebels approaches from the Carolinas.

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

A sector that once rebelled against Beijing has grown into a critical tool for working around sanctions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026

The bright hours when the young rebelled against the descending sun had to give way to twenty-four-hour periods called “days” that were named as well as numbered.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou

Still, it’s promising sign that people are rebelling against Flock cameras.

From Salon ● Aug. 14, 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

"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

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

It was bad enough that his daughter was rebelling, but here was his own wife joining forces with her.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez




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