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anarchists

  • plural
    of anarchist.
    anarchist
    noun
    a person who advocates or believes in anarchy or anarchism.

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The directors suggest Black Rock City has been visited upon by a plague of plutocrats and anarchists.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

He discovered a public more concerned with Progressive Era anti-monopoly reforms that Republicans cast as anti-business, a postwar economic slump, and acts of domestic terrorism committed by anarchists.

From Slate ● Mar. 10, 2026

Naturally, a lot of it was focused on immigrants, hundreds of whom were deported under suspicion of being anarchists.

From Salon ● Dec. 21, 2025

According to Mark Bray, a professor of history at Rutgers University, the term was picked up across Europe in the 1980s and ’90s and adopted by a broad swath of leftists, anarchists and anti-authoritarian socialists.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2025

There’s surely an entry on the anarchist playwright Alfred Jarry, who once gave Picasso a Browning pistol—the gun favored by the anarchists.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day