rebel
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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
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
“S’ant!” replied the young rebel, helping himself to the coveted ‘cakie’, and beginning to eat the same with calm audacity.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
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On Wednesday, the rebels reported more than 40 Saudi reprisal strikes.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 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
Tech leaders, once seen as “the disrupters and rebels, were becoming the powers that be,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
Yemen’s Houthi rebels and al-Shabaab—al Qaeda’s wealthiest affiliate—were long divided by sectarian lines.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
There was Tío Angelo, who’d fought with the Macheteros rebels outside of San Juan.
From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older
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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
On Christmas Day in 1868, President Andrew Johnson issued a sweeping amnesty to former Confederate officials and soldiers, ending legal consequences for those who rebelled against the United States.
From Salon ● Dec. 25, 2025
“Are you one of the angels who rebelled so long ago?”
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
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The bond market, however, is rebelling against that premise—a selloff is sending yields higher and raising governments’ borrowing costs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 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
"Students were rebelling, but with hope and celebration, not anger. The film was about people finding joy in being themselves and saying we don't want to conform," says Krishen in the same interview.
From BBC ● Feb. 13, 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 rebelling and would have leaped over the side of the mountain, to all our destruction, in its attempt to unseat me had I relaxed control for a single second.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
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