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insurrectional

American  
[in-ser-ek-shuhn-uhl] / ˌɪn sərˈɛk ʃən əl /

adjective

  1. of or relating to an insurrection.


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How can educational and pedagogical practices be connected to the resurrection of historical memory, new modes of solidarity, a resurgence of the radical imagination and broad-based struggles for an insurrectional democracy?

From Salon ● Feb. 18, 2019

For something more recent, there are David Hammons’s insurrectional shrouded “Tarp” paintings.

From New York Times ● Dec. 20, 2018

He became a union negotiator and, in the early 1990s, a member of the MBR-200, the civilian wing of Chávez’s insurrectional military movement.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 29, 2017

We cannot pin our hopes on a large insurrectional movement .

From Time Magazine Archive

The insurrectional Commune now realized that Mandat was a considerable obstacle and set to work to remove him.

From The French Revolution A Short History by R. M. (Robert Matteson) Johnston

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