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  • noun Plural form of revolt.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of revolt.

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Examples

  • Attempts by groups or individuals to marshal the energy of the Tea Parties and give them a structure have invariably prompted revolts from the rank and file.

    Tea Party infighting keeps two leaders apart Ed Pilkington in New York 2010

  • The characters, while full and developed, do little with moving around in this eighteenth-century world, and spend most of their time worrying about secret revolts from the French.

    2010 April 16 « The BookBanter Blog 2010

  • Long-term revolts against our own kind are not common.

    LEGENDS OF THE DRAGONREALM Richard A. Knaak 2009

  • Long-term revolts against our own kind are not common.

    LEGENDS OF THE DRAGONREALM Richard A. Knaak 2009

  • Long-term revolts against our own kind are not common.

    LEGENDS OF THE DRAGONREALM Richard A. Knaak 2009

  • TARP, you’ll recall, was a massive legislative drama with simultaneous rank-and-file revolts from the left and the right.

    Matthew Yglesias » The Costliest Bailout 2010

  • Liberals seem to think that the era of tax revolts is coming to an end, but what if it’s the case that we’re about to enter a new era of tax revolts – an era of liberal tax revolts – when voters begin to realize and become outraged that their government’s vast military expenditures aren’t making them safer, and are putting both their entitlement security and their household bottom lines at risk? jedster Says:

    Matthew Yglesias » Rudy The Authoritarian 2007

  • In an interview with ABC News, his brother, Saadi, was surprisingly candid about the scope of the problem facing the Gaddafi clan, calling the revolts sweeping the Middle East "an earthquake."

    Gaddafi opponents spread control deeper into west Libya 2011

  • In an interview with ABC News, his brother, Saadi, was surprisingly candid about the scope of the problem facing the Gaddafi clan, calling the revolts sweeping the Middle East "an earthquake."

    Gaddafi opponents spread control deeper into west Libya 2011

  • In an interview with ABC News, his brother, Saadi, was surprisingly candid about the scope of the problem facing the Gaddafi clan, calling the revolts sweeping the Middle East "an earthquake."

    Gaddafi opponents spread control deeper into west Libya 2011

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