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US
/ɹɪˈbɛɫjən/
]
[ UK /ɹɪbˈɛliən/ ]
[ UK /ɹɪbˈɛliən/ ]
NOUN
- organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another
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refusal to accept some authority or code or convention
each generation must have its own rebellion
his body was in rebellion against fatigue
How To Use rebellion In A Sentence
- Moreover, don't these choices facilitate a feminist reading of the text, deconstructing sentimentality to expose masculine failings and feminine rebellion?
- Human rebellion didn't change his desire. Christianity Today
- They are in rebellion against the conservative hierarchy of the Church.
- All of modern art since the middle of the previous century had been based on rebellion against academicism and Ingres was the painter most associated with academicism.
- This has continued in times of war, rebellion, economic panic and depression, loyalty scares, riots, draft-card burnings, and similar crises. The Volokh Conspiracy » Attempts to Defeat the Kagan Nomination, and Political Hardball
- Throughout the last decades of the eighteenth century and the first decades of the nineteenth, scarcely a year passed without violent protest or armed rebellion.
- The rebellion is expected to further damage the country's image.
- One week after this story was written, the top 20 pop albums in the United States included records by fresh-faced adolescents the Beatles, teen sensation Bob Seger, twentysomething heartthrob Frank Sinatra, a barely-postpubescent but preternaturally-talented Bob Marley, recent high school graduate Rod Stewart, former boy band member Johnny Cash, newly-discovered youth sensation Barry White, and a band whose name is synonymous with "teenage rebellion": Pink Floyd. Sirilyan Diary Entry
- Twitter in an attempt to exert discipline at the end of a year that has been blighted by rebellion within the side and allegations of match-fixing. Times, Sunday Times
- From the Whiskey Rebellion to the Know-Nothings to the reborn Militias of the 1990s, the eastern establishment has always had reason to fear the expression of a certain kind of cussed American individualism that rebels against what it sees as the encroachments of the state. Obama's Culture War