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
  • Most agree that the window to stamp out the insurgency is narrow.
    — Ghazi Balkiz, CNN, 10 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • Tamacti Jun tries once more to quell the Witchfinders’ insurgency.
    — Rodney Ho, ajc, 5 Sep. 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
  • The Mozambique government hires the Wagner Group to counter the al-Shabab insurgency.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 26 June 2023
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • Many people took up arms against the regime, or joined existing insurgencies.
    — WIRED, 29 Sep. 2023
  • In those days, most Chinese toiled on the land, a vast manpower reservoir for the Communist insurgency.
    — Joel Kotkin, National Review, 3 Mar. 2023
  • The threat of the communist insurgency was one factor in the ouster in 1986 of President Ferdinand Marcos.
    — Seth Mydans, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2022
  • The core conflict isn’t nation versus nation or nation versus insurgency, but wealth against anything that stands in the way of it.
    — Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2023
  • The insurgency is exacerbating a hunger emergency in Somalia, caused by the worst drought to hit the Horn of Africa region in at least four decades.
    — Abdulkadir Fooday, WSJ, 30 Oct. 2022
  • The divide was a key factor in the collapse of the nation’s police and military forces when faced with the Islamic State insurgency that swept across Iraq and Syria in 2014.
    — Lolita C. Baldor and Tara Copp, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Mar. 2023
  • New Hampshire Democrats have said such changes pave the way for local insurgency -- and now that may be bearing fruit, with Kennedy appearing there and Williamson spending time in the state prior to her launch.
    — Brittany Shepherd, ABC News, 3 Mar. 2023
  • The gas-rich southwestern Balochistan province at the border of Afghanistan and Iran has been the site of a low-level insurgency by Baloch nationalists for more than two decades.
    — Abdul Sattar The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 30 Sep. 2023
  • The junta leaders claimed Mr. Bazoum’s government wasn’t doing enough to protect the country from the insurgency.
    — Angela Charlton and Dalatou Mamane, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Sep. 2023
  • But far from being stopped, the insurgency has billowed out from its northern beginnings across the country’s center and to its neighbors.
    — Ruth MacLean, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Aug. 2022
  • The outcome could affect the future of Niger and the stability of a region that has become the world’s epicenter of Islamist insurgency.
    — Ismail Alfa, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Picture instead the army officer corps that the tiny white elite empowered, during the Cold War, to crush Guatemala’s leftist insurgencies.
    — Quico Toro, The Atlantic, 15 Feb. 2024
  • But the five-year-old Islamist insurgency there has halted most production.
    — Sudarsan Raghavan, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2022
  • For example, the Democratic party has rigged its primaries going back to the Bernie Sanders insurgency of 2016.
    — Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Baltimore Sun, 14 Feb. 2024
  • King ably describes these dynamics and argues that all three insurgencies have weaponized the need for water to cause terror and advance their strategic goals.
    — Marcus D. King, Foreign Affairs, 22 Aug. 2023
  • None of the losers sought to foment an uprising or create a national insurgency.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2022
  • India blames the militant group Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) for the attack, the deadliest on security forces since the beginning of the insurgency in the late 1980s.
    — Sophia Saifi, CNN, 20 Apr. 2023
  • The shifting tastes at the presidential palace are just one example of how Afghanistan has changed since the Taliban returned to power after more than two decades of insurgency.
    — Hannah Beech, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2023

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