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The word 'insurgent' is correct and usable in written English
You can use the word to describe someone who is rising up against an established authority, typically through armed conflict. For example, "The insurgent forces launched a surprise attack on the capital city."
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insurgent
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One of several people who take up arms against the local state authority; a participant in insurgency
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An insurgent who I recognised from my village convinced me to accept Islam lest I should be killed.
There was a time in 2007, in between Chris Kyle's deployments, when half my platoon was trapped behind a house while two Iraqi insurgent machine gunners pinned us down.
The report warned of an "alarming deterioration" of human rights in eastern Ukraine, where it said insurgent groups had carried out "targeted killings, torture and beatings, abductions, intimidation and some cases of sexual harassment".
In underground armed insurgent groups there will always be criminals and opportunists who ride on the back of "armed campaigns" to enrich themselves; in Northern Ireland this particularly phenomenon was a common trait of loyalist paramilitaries.
Its deputy foreign minister, Hossein Amir Abdollahian said he was confident the Islamist insurgent group could be defeated with collective action.
In so much as Labour and the Tories were discussed, it was mainly in the context of how they were being affected by the insurgent rivals that are snapping at their legs and tearing chunks out of their vote.
The girls were abducted after midnight from a school in Chibok, on the edge of the Sambisa Forest, an insurgent hideout, said the Borno state police commissioner Tanko Lawan.
In one incident, the radical politician Oleh Liashko was shown in footage that emerged last week humiliating captured insurgent and self-proclaimed defence minister of the "Donetsk People's Republic", Igor Kakidzyanov.
We rarely see intel soldiers piecing together insurgent networks, or low-ranking officers meting out local grievances in rural Afghanistan.
There's a history to the GOP establishment simply absorbing insurgent movements and moving right.
It and its allies must also do more to back "acceptable" insurgent groups in Syria, argues Charles Lister of the Brookings Institution.
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