Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective lacking a leader.
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- adjective Without a
leader (either a person in authority or a beginning piece to form a starter)
Etymologies
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Examples
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They say focusing on them, as Sylvester and Evans have, is a distraction, as is highlighting the inevitable differences of opinion in what they call a "leaderless movement."
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Mr. Al Aswany is one of the few prominent faces of Egypt's so-called leaderless revolution, a Vaclav Havel for this Arab Spring.
The Face of Egypt's Uprising Matthew Kaminski 2011
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It evolved from the strategy called leaderless resistance that was invented by a leader of the Aryan Nations named Louis Beam.
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It devolved from the strategy called leaderless resistance that was invented by a leader of the Aryan Nations named Louis Beam.
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It was sort of followed the model used here in the United States and domestic terrorism called leaderless resistance, where small cells would spontaneously erupt and take on their own agendas.
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And I think one thing -- there is a phenomenal called leaderless resistance, which the right-wing militia movement in this country developed.
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Communities have sometimes been referred to as leaderless groups.
THE DIFFERENT DRUM M. SCOTT PECK 1987
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Communities have sometimes been referred to as leaderless groups.
THE DIFFERENT DRUM M. SCOTT PECK 1987
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At all costs, this has to be prevented, he wrote on yellow pad paper in pen, referring to the leaderless, consensus approach of the Occupy Wall Street protest.
The Seattle Times 2011
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At all costs, this has to be prevented, he wrote on yellow pad paper in pen, referring to the leaderless, consensus approach of the Occupy Wall Street protest.
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