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uprising

noun as in disturbance

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She remembers her childhood during the second intifada, or uprising, when she couldn’t attend birthday parties because of Israeli checkpoint closures, and driving through mountain passes permeated by the smell of tear gas.

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Ivory Coast authorities have detained a senior aide to opposition leader Laurent Gbagbo, accusing him of having called for an uprising ahead of last month's presidential polls, the prosecutor said on Wednesday.

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Nepal's Election Commission said on Wednesday that 125 political parties had registered to contest the first parliamentary polls since a mass uprising in September ousted the government.

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Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, who leads the government as "chief advisor", said he had inherited a "completely broken down" political system after taking over following an uprising last year.

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The complex story of unfree Black people’s contribution begins in 1803, as France was trying to quell an uprising among the enslaved peoples of Haiti.

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

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