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mutineer

[myoot-n-eer] / ˌmyut nˈɪər /
NOUN
rebel
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Seeing Samary revealed as the coup spokesman, Tévoédjrè was dismayed to realize he had sent a mutineer to stop a mutiny.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026

The lead mutineer was a deckhand named Liu Guiduo.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 7, 2023

And, of course, Yevgeny Prigozhin himself, Wagner’s leader and mutineer who many believed was a marked man after his short-lived uprising in June against the Russian military.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 24, 2023

“I’ve never known a better seaman, but as a man, he’s a snake,” says Clark Gable as mutineer Fletcher Christian in the 1935 version.

From Washington Post • Apr. 15, 2020

The brawny mutineer set her on his knee, and, in a voice harshened by thirty years' service before the mast, asked her deferentially if she fancied a glass of syrup?

From Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas by Osbourne, Lloyd




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