traitorous

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The “traitorous eight,” as Shockley called them, set out to be hired as a group to study and make semiconductors.

From Washington Post

The defection by the “traitorous eight,” as the group came to be called, planted the seeds for Silicon Valley’s renegade culture, in which engineers who disagreed with their colleagues didn’t hesitate to become competitors.

From Seattle Times

In 1957, Mr. Moore and Mr. Noyce joined a group of defectors who came to be known as “the traitorous eight.”

From New York Times

When his father suffered an early death, Petrie’s mother gave her 10-year-old son the other unloved curiosities from the traitorous trip, and these antiquities, whether real or fake, became the narrator’s private boyhood fascination.

From New York Times

Are Republican senators sufficiently appalled and outraged at this traitorous act by a rogue president or are they more cowed by GOP voters who remain militantly devoted to the ex-president?

From Seattle Times