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Consumers had rebelled against the chain over rising costs of its food, with images of an $18 Big Mac combo meal sold in Connecticut going viral in 2023.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 11, 2026

Although it stated “all persons held as slaves . . . henceforward shall be free,” the proclamation was limited in effect to the states that had rebelled.

From Textbooks • Jul. 28, 2021

The daughter of strict, successful parents, she had rebelled as a teen by going “party girl” and spending a lot of time online.

From Washington Post • Aug. 3, 2019

The Magna Carta - Latin for Great Charter - was agreed at Runnymede in 1215 and sealed by after powerful barons had rebelled and captured London.

From BBC • Sep. 28, 2012

In 1863, President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing enslaved people in the states that had rebelled.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson