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guerrilla

noun as in bushfighter

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For more than six years, there has been a guerrilla war in Cameroon between government forces and insurgents who want certain parts of the country to become an independent state.

From BBC

Most of Ireland ultimately became an independent state in 1922, after several years of bloody guerrilla warfare.

From Salon

In 1982, Israel invaded Lebanon in what it described as a mission to root out Palestinian guerrillas.

For nearly 60 years, the guerrillas - also called Naxalites - have fought the Indian state to establish a communist society, the movement claiming at least 40,000 lives.

From BBC

Monday’s protest comes just two days after the opening of the group’s first retrospective exhibition at downtown L.A.’s Superchief Gallery, which chronicles nearly two decades of its guerrilla art actions.

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

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