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rebel

[reb-uhl, ri-bel] / ˈrɛb əl, rɪˈbɛl /






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In the days before Tice vanished, the driver made one particularly brazen move while Tice was interviewing rebel fighters.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

“If we reach our goal to go to Oktoberfest, it’s not the rebel brand anymore,” Marx said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 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

Tens of thousands of rebel soldiers remained in the field all across the South.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

The advance gives the Yemeni rebels effective control of one of the world’s most important shipping chokepoints after a rapid offensive.

From The Wall Street Journal ● 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

On Wednesday, the rebels reported more than 40 Saudi reprisal strikes.

From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026

“In part, that followed the tanker attacks over the weekend, but it was also reported that the Houthi rebels had hit Saudi Arabian oil infrastructure yesterday.”

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026

The king had vaguely hinted at some sort of issue with rebels poisoning their food stores, but the details were murky enough to suggest that the truth was buried somewhere else.

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas

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

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

First Africa rebelled, then the Senate with the entire populace of Rome, and finally all of Italy conspired against him.

From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli

And the red at-home nail lacquer, released by Revlon in the early 1930s, was a badge of honour for modern women rebelling against that kind of oppressive judgement.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

A system designed to stop machines from rebelling will differ from one designed to hold laboratories responsible for testing practices, network architecture, safeguards, monitoring and intervention.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

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

Lily used honey these days, rebelling against a product pretending to be maple syrup without a speck of the real thing in it.

From "It All Comes Down to This" by Karen English




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