Symbionese

American  

[sim-bee-uh-neez, -nees] / ˌsɪm bi əˈniz, -ˈnis /

adjective

1. of, relating to, or characteristic of the Symbionese Liberation Army or its adherents.

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Etymology

Origin of Symbionese

1973; according to the group's manifesto, “taken from the word symbiosis … a body of dissimilar bodies and organisms living in deep and loving harmony …; -nese probably after Chinese, Japanese, etc.

Example Sentences

He began as a copy boy at the New York Times in the 1970s and then wrote a profile for its magazine about a neighbor who joined the Symbionese Liberation Army, the group that kidnapped Patty Hearst.

From The Wall Street Journal

One of its stranger spinoffs was the grandiose, tactically clumsy Symbionese Liberation Army — an army of perhaps a dozen white men and women led by a black escaped convict.

From Los Angeles Times

Patty Hearst had been kidnapped by, and seemingly joined, the Symbionese Liberation Army.

From Slate

The Symbionese Liberation Army — the tiny cadre of Bay Area radicals that Harris belonged to — learned that Hearst lived without security at that address near campus.

From Los Angeles Times

“Some people” turned out to be a half-dozen or so members of the SLA, the grandiosely named Symbionese Liberation Army.

From Los Angeles Times