Black Bloc
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Most rallies were peaceful but in Paris police intervened after black-clad "Black Bloc" anarchists tried to erect a barricade in a street near La Republique Square, police said.
From Reuters • May 1, 2022
Those who have sought shelter here are looked after by a rotating cast of young women in black balaclavas — the Bloque Negro, or the Black Bloc.
From Washington Post • Nov. 26, 2020
More than a thousand members of the far-left Black Bloc movement came to the demonstrations in Paris dressed in dark hoodies and balaclavas.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 2, 2018
Berkeley campus police had never encountered Black Bloc tactics before Wednesday, Reich said, “something we’ll have to prepare for and address going forward.”
From Seattle Times • Feb. 7, 2017
In another, soccer superstar Neymar da Silva Santos wears a face mask used by members of Black Bloc, an anarchist group that opposes the World Cup.
From Newsweek
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