resistance movement

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Our civil resistance movement is strong, and it is growing.

From Slate • Jan. 25, 2026

It is also the color "that the feminist resistance movement has embraced," she added.

From Barron's • Jan. 2, 2026

The futility and frustration of dieting has in recent years ignited a resistance movement of sorts, encouraging women, especially, to reject social pressures to maintain a slender form.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025

"Amandla" means power in the Zulu language and was a well-known slogan in the resistance movement against white-minority apartheid rule.

From BBC • Nov. 8, 2025

At that young age, George joined the Dutch underground resistance movement as a courier, learning to dodge the Gestapo, the Nazi secret police.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau