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rebel

[reb-uhl, ri-bel] / ˈrɛb əl, rɪˈbɛl /






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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

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

Tice, as a trained marine, would sometimes share his military experience with rebel fighters - according to several people we spoke to - and would correct fighters on how they used their weapons.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 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

An international airport in the Saudi capital has been attacked again, reports say, just days after Yemen's Houthi rebels claimed two successful attacks on the hub.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

She said this week: “I’m one of the rebels that is not going to put a number on her house.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 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 married rebels barely had time to take leave of their wives, whom they left to their own devices.

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

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

Consumers had rebelled against the chain over rising costs of its food, with images of an $18 Big Mac combo meal sold in Connecticut going viral in 2023.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026

And we loved the way she rebelled, anyway; having been raised by old people, she spoke like them.

From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline

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

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 was too busy rebelling against my family and learning to be an artist.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 1, 2025

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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