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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a uprising" is not correct in written English.
The correct form is "an uprising" because "uprising" begins with a vowel sound.
Example: "The citizens organized an uprising against the oppressive regime."
Alternatives: "a revolt" or "a rebellion."
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That, inevitably, provoked a uprising within the Mozilla community: a public petition was circulated demanding that he step down, the dating site OkCupid recommended that its customers stop using Firefox, and some Mozilla employees (though far from all of them) called for his resignation.
Although he has been critical of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's crackdown on a uprising which has resulted in 10,000 deaths, the Russian president has remained opposed to foreign intervention.
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Bad LBL wants an uprising, a conflagration, a second Civil War.
A popular Egyptian novel, "Utopia," set in a future Cairo, quotes a character explaining an uprising.
First, there is an uprising and a breakout, against formidable odds.
Nineteen men died in an uprising in a Tijuana jail in September.
Concerning the disorders of 1967 in Detroit: was this a riot or an uprising?
This is an uprising against a quarter century of Washington, D.C., based free-trade boosterism.
It is not an entrance but an uprising, something volcanic.
Many consider an uprising against Kim a far-fetched dream.
Meanwhile, only an uprising in Ghent prevented a French invasion of southern England.
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