How to Use insurgency in a Sentence

insurgency

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  • By 2009, the insurgency was over and the island was once again open for tourism.
    — Emily Schmall Atul Loke, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2022
  • Both saw the emergence of the insurgency and then its growth.
    — CBS News, 15 Mar. 2023
  • So what does all this mean for the insurgency in Ukraine?
    — Jason Fields, The Week, 8 Mar. 2022
  • Most agree that the window to stamp out the insurgency is narrow.
    — Ghazi Balkiz, CNN, 10 Oct. 2022
  • The group known as PKK has waged a 38-year insurgency against Turkey that has led to tens of thousands of deaths.
    — Fox News, 31 May 2022
  • Over the next few years, the insurgency spread through the poor and isolated province.
    — Sophie Neiman, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 June 2024
  • In the morning on the second day of Prigozhin’s insurgency, Putin addressed the nation.
    — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
  • Although these operations dealt a blow to the group, the insurgency learned to adapt.
    — Sarah Harrison, Foreign Affairs, 28 Sep. 2023
  • The party has fought a decadeslong insurgency against the Turkish state.
    — Aurelien Breeden, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Dec. 2022
  • Clubhouse launched in the spring of 2020, the thick of the pandemic, with a white-nationalist insurgency in the offing.
    — Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 31 Mar. 2022
  • Tamacti Jun tries once more to quell the Witchfinders’ insurgency.
    — Rodney Ho, ajc, 5 Sep. 2022
  • Upstairs in the vestibule, Hollander thought the scene was no longer just a rowdy protest but had taken on an air of insurgency.
    — Benjamin Wofford, Wired, 10 Mar. 2022
  • But three very different men have tried to lead House Republicans in the dozen years since the tea party insurgency pushed the party to the right in 2010.
    — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2023
  • And as the insurgency mushroomed, people began to blame the foreign forces.
    — Ruth MacLean, New York Times, 7 June 2024
  • In response, the coalition shifted to the hearts-and-minds strategy of counter-insurgency.
    — Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2021
  • To commit to a larger counter insurgency would bog us down in a costly, open-ended war.
    — David Axelrod, CNN, 18 Aug. 2021
  • The Mozambique government hires the Wagner Group to counter the al-Shabab insurgency.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 26 June 2023
  • The attack took place on Sunday afternoon in Yobe, one of three states at the frontline of an insurgency that has lasted 15 years.
    — Reuters, CNN, 4 Sep. 2024
  • Parts of Ukraine were deeply anti-Russian, raising the specter of an insurgency even if Putin toppled the government in Kyiv.
    — Liz Sly, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2022
  • But many experts believe that a long insurgency could develop, and raise the cost for Putin of the invasion.
    — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 25 Feb. 2022
  • Regardless of the public’s opinion, the facts are crystal-clear—AI and high-tech have come far, and there’s no way of stopping the global insurgency.
    — Hilary Tetenabaum, USA TODAY, 5 Apr. 2024
  • With dirty cops in his pocket, Moktar rejects both the idealism of Abdel and the insurgency of Karim.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2022
  • The leader of the brutal Shining Path insurgency in Peru who was captured in 1992.
    — Bernard McGhee, ajc, 10 Dec. 2021
  • And a horrific video harking back to the grimmest days of the insurgency that showed the beheading of an Iraqi police officer.
    — New York Times, 25 Jan. 2022
  • The buffer zone, built as part of Egypt's battle against an Islamic State group insurgency, was meant to prevent weapons smuggling to and from Gaza.
    — Wafaa Shurafa and Bassem Mroue The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 18 Feb. 2024
  • They were crushed by Soviet power, in a brutal counter-insurgency, and today Ukraine’s far right polls at one to two per cent.
    — Timothy Snyder, The New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2022
  • Many people took up arms against the regime, or joined existing insurgencies.
    — WIRED, 29 Sep. 2023
  • With the fall of Kabul, he had been transformed from the covert spokesman of a long-running insurgency to the face of a national administration.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
  • And in 1992, his forces arrested the leader of Shining Path, helping halt that insurgency.
    — Chris Foran, Journal Sentinel, 12 Sep. 2024
  • But the insurgency in the occupied West Bank has remained broadly the same since the second intifada, or uprising, in the early 2000s — a period that claimed thousands of lives.
    — Matt Bradley, NBC News, 28 June 2024

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