as in aggression
an inclination to fight or quarrel
the militancy of the radical organization gave the authorities cause for concern
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Recent Examples of militancy
By the time Moynihan’s second paper came out, many white liberals, distracted by the war in Vietnam and disenchanted by Black militancy, had given up on the crusade for civil rights.
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Louis Menand, New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2025
The indirect impact on elections is a common side effect of labor militancy and mass protest.
—Kevin A. Young, The Conversation, 18 Mar. 2025
The country also continues to struggle with militancy in two of its provinces bordering Afghanistan, where separatists and extremist groups regularly launch attacks on police, soldiers and civilians.
—Betsy Joles, NPR, 2 Mar. 2025
As the years passed, clashes escalated and the death toll mounted, the PKK increasingly turned to militancy.
—Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 28 Feb. 2025
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Louis Menand, New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2025
The indirect impact on elections is a common side effect of labor militancy and mass protest.
—Kevin A. Young, The Conversation, 18 Mar. 2025
The country also continues to struggle with militancy in two of its provinces bordering Afghanistan, where separatists and extremist groups regularly launch attacks on police, soldiers and civilians.
—Betsy Joles, NPR, 2 Mar. 2025
As the years passed, clashes escalated and the death toll mounted, the PKK increasingly turned to militancy.
—Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 28 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for militancy
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The Russian president has unilaterally declared a three-day ceasefire over the course of the Victory Day celebrations, which will be a key propaganda event for the Kremlin in light of its aggression in Ukraine.—
Brendan Cole,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 May 2025
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The early stages of the war revealed how a lack of preparedness left many nations vulnerable to aggression.—
Lt. General Leon Scott Rice,
Boston Herald,
7 May 2025
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And this all matches the public’s general hostility to higher rates of immigration to the US over the last few years — which according to Gallup data, seems to still be the case.—
Christian Paz,
Vox,
2 May 2025
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Trump has pressed both sides to quickly come to a war-ending agreement, but while Zelenskyy agreed to an American plan for an initial 30-day halt to hostilities, Russia has not signed on and has continued to strike at targets inside Ukraine.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
27 Apr. 2025
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This is compounded by the economic impacts of the Trump trade pressures, the global backlash of the Hong Kong National Security Law, the declining fortunes of national technology champion Huawei, and other reactions to growing China militance and chauvinism.—
Therese Shaheen,
National Review,
1 Sep. 2020
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The flamboyance, militance, and violence of the 1960s left might not have worked right away, after all.—
Samuel Goldman,
The Week,
6 Jan. 2022
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“Militancy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/militancy. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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