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revolt

noun as in uprising

verb as in disgust, nauseate

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The U.S. treated his parents’ homeland of Cuba like a playground for decades, propping up one dictator after another until Cubans revolted and Fidel Castro took power.

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Add it up and we could be looking at the beginning of a consumer tipping backlash, if not a full-scale revolt, experts say.

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It is not science and technical progress that nurtures modern atheism but rather the very “image of God” tradition revolting against God.

Former East Wing staffers told East Wing Magazine that seeing the offices where they once worked torn down was “jarring,” a “gut punch” and “revolting.”

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His tribe revolted against Islamic State’s authority in 2014 but was put down with a campaign of shootings and beheadings that left hundreds dead, including some of his relatives.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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