as in rebellious
given to resisting authority or another's control
today's rebel chefs feel free to ignore the dictates of classic French cuisine
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as in insurgent
a person who rises up against authority
the rebel would not submit peacefully, even after he was captured
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as in to revolt
to rise up against established authority
the colonists rebelled in the wake of an onslaught of abuses
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Recent Examples of rebel
Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2024
As Rob rises as the leader of a band of rebel outlaws, Marian infiltrates the power at court, as both work together to thwart royal corruption and bring peace to the land.
—Peter White, Deadline, 24 Sep. 2024
Stephan Kieninger / Made By History, TIME, 30 Oct. 2024
Meanwhile, Iran has been blamed for a series of attacks on shipping in the Middle East in recent years, which later grew into the attacks by Yemen’s Houthi rebels on shipping through the Red Sea corridor.
—Jon Gambrell, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2024
Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 5 Oct. 2024
But Democrats rebelled at the governor’s bizarre scheme and refused to insert the deadly pill into their package.
—George Skelton, The Mercury News, 24 Sep. 2024
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Adjective
The lost art of rebel Disney Imagineer Rolly Crump, who worked on attractions such as the Haunted Mansion, can be viewed at a West Hollywood gallery.
—Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2024
As Rob rises as the leader of a band of rebel outlaws, Marian infiltrates the power at court, as both work together to thwart royal corruption and bring peace to the land.
—Peter White, Deadline, 24 Sep. 2024
Noun
In August 1999, Putin became Prime Minister, right as tensions between the Russian army and Chechen rebels in the Caucasus were rising.
—Stephan Kieninger / Made By History, TIME, 30 Oct. 2024
Meanwhile, Iran has been blamed for a series of attacks on shipping in the Middle East in recent years, which later grew into the attacks by Yemen’s Houthi rebels on shipping through the Red Sea corridor.
—Jon Gambrell, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2024
Verb
After a while, the women decided to call themselves the New Barbizon, a tribute to the 19th-century French painters who rebelled against the claustrophobic conventions of the French Academy and painted landscapes en plein air.
—Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 5 Oct. 2024
But Democrats rebelled at the governor’s bizarre scheme and refused to insert the deadly pill into their package.
—George Skelton, The Mercury News, 24 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rebel
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The current state of his ’stache, more tweezed than Hughes’s rebellious bushy caterpillar, is owed to that role.Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
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Tired of the toxic culture within the group, Veronica teams up with her rebellious new boyfriend, J.D. (played by Christian Slater), and things quickly spiral out of control as their plot to take down the Heathers turns deadly.Jane LaCroix, People.com, 2 Nov. 2024
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Boko Haram is a Nigerian insurgent group that started fighting in 2009 to oppose Western education and impose their radical version of Islamic law.Matt Robison, Newsweek, 20 Nov. 2024
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Republicans didn't plan on spending millions of dollars to defend Senator Deb Fischer, but Osborne's insurgent campaign has taken off.ABC News, ABC News, 27 Oct. 2024
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The Importance Of The Distilleries To The War Effort The other side of this story is how many on social media were quick to joke that Russians may revolt if the nation's vodka producers are taken offline.Peter Suciu, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
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There was a lot of speculation that the outages would hurt their business from customers revolting, resulting in a loss in market share.Jeff Marks, CNBC, 16 Oct. 2024
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Even so, Mars’ defiant punk energy can draw some stares from the neighbors back home.Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 20 Nov. 2024
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Her eyes are an expressive window into the character’s lifetime of hurt and exclusion or defiant pride and anger, sometimes spanning that range and more within one scene or song or single line reading.David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Nov. 2024
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With a trailer highlighting the revolutionaries’ youthful fervor before culminating in a note about the costs of war, Say Nothing seems intent on leaning hard into the complications of a conflict not yet resolved.Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2024
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The revolutionaries even had a Muslim ally in the form of Hyder Ali and his armies.Adam Jortner, The Conversation, 18 Oct. 2024
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French sailors aboard two ships off the Crimean Peninsula mutinied, pulled down the tricolor, ran up the Red flag and then went ashore to join a pro-Bolshevik demonstration.Thomas E. Ricks, New York Times, 19 May 2024
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In early November, as the German naval command contemplated initiating a final climactic and likely suicidal attack on the British fleet, German sailors mutinied in the city of Kiel, leading to a wider revolution.Max Bergmann, Foreign Affairs, 18 July 2023
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“Rebel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rebel. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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