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uprising

noun as in disturbance

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In her zeal to bring Jinx to justice and end the Zaun uprising, Caitlyn tries to shoot Jinx even though doing so would needlessly endanger a child.

From Salon

Trump also increased his share of voters without a college degree, gained ground with Black voters in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, and held steady nationally with white women, shocking Democrats who had expected a post-Dobbs uprising.

From Salon

That uprising has since escalated into a full-blown civil war.

From BBC

Corcoran’s chief anxiety was a Democratic uprising: a Trump victory, she said, would lead people in the cities to pillage and plunder.

I spent the summer of 2011 in Cairo following the inspirational and successful uprising against Hosni Mubarak’s dictatorship in Egypt as part of the Arab Spring.

From Slate

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

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