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In the years since Harry and Meghan “stepped back” from their royal duties and relocated to the United States, Harry’s rebelliously normcore tendencies have only become more pronounced.

From Washington Post • Jan. 14, 2023

Phil, Dorothy Buffum Chandler, that she had him fired on occasion, only for her son, Times publisher Otis Chandler, to rebelliously rehire Bernheimer the next day.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 1, 2019

Proudly and rebelliously, I accused my parents’ generation—and Mama in particular—of failing to live up to the utopian promises that should have handed me a future that I could find worthy and comfortable.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 5, 2019

So it smacks of that tinny, 1990s inconsistency: rebelliously rejecting frilly conformity one minute, wallowing in it the next.

From The Guardian • Mar. 19, 2017

When they approached, Nellie looked at them and backed her ears and bobbed her head up and down rebelliously.

From "The Red Pony" by John Steinbeck