as in rebel
a person who rises up against authority
the mutineers were captured after they turned to piracy on the open seas
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Recent Examples of mutineer
He’s been with them since the beginning, proving himself as a loyal friend and a valuable mutineer.
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Ben Travers, IndieWire, 7 Feb. 2025
The mutineers requested political asylum but instead were imprisoned by the Cambodian government.
—Roberto Loiederman, Baltimore Sun, 11 Jan. 2025
The games remain incomplete, and may in fact remain that way depending on what the Front Man decides to do with Gi-hun and all of the other mutineers.
—Josh Wigler, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Jan. 2025
While Musk was on his honeymoon, Botha and other mutineers met with PayPal’s lead investors to make their case.
—Michal Lev-Ram, Fortune, 25 July 2024
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Last December, armed rebels previously aligned with terror groups finally ousted Assad from power after a 14 year civil war.—
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There was a buffer zone where French soldiers were and then the north was held by rebel groups.—
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While many are now driven primarily by economic interests, a subset retains insurgent, ant-imperialist commitments.—
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That could mean tightening sanctions on remaining power brokers, expanding strikes against security installations and militias, covertly supporting insurgent factions, and using Maduro’s prospective trial as a global stage on which to delegitimize Chavismo once and for all.—
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“Mutineer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mutineer. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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