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militancy

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for militancy.

Editorial note

I think though joked about, one of the most telling things about the NRA is their absolute militancy about gun rights...

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Quick take

The quality of being militant.

Meaning at a glance

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noun

The quality of being militant.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for militancy.

Example sentences

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I think though joked about, one of the most telling things about the NRA is their absolute militancy about gun rights...

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There seems to be a certain militancy among some vapers that doesn't exist around most other things.

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Neither the precise scale of the killings or the degree of militancy of the protesters has been well documented.

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I posit the militancy is a possible result of persecution.

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They were happy to turn a blind eye to the violence caused by Islamic militancy in Kashmir in the 90s.

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Zelin separating his surveilling of islamic militancy respectively into a jihadology and a muqawamology web site.

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Example: Extremist factions using narratives of collective victimhood to justify terrorism, militancy, or ethnic cleansings.

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Islamic militancy was going on for hundreds of years before christianity responded in kind.

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I'd even hazard a guess that my level of militancy on those topics is similar to yours.

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Ultimately, the goal of using a labor force with restricted mobility (like H-1B visa holders) is to contain labor militancy and suppress wages.

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When Zionist interests moved in, backed by English and American militancy to enforce land purchase contracts, the Palestinians were not a centrally organized collective.

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Other features of the last 40 years, besides the drug war, include the virtual disappearance of urban rioting and the erasure of youth/minority political militancy.

Quote examples

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To fight militancy, we invest overwhelmingly in the military toolbox but not so much in the education toolbox that has a far better record at defeating militancy." I wonder if this has anything to do with what a powerful tool control of the educational system is.

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Anarchists are much more decentralized, and have varying opinions about how to organize change, so there's much more scope for the cops to find someone who spray-painted or vandalized something, and via that argue that any group that person was part of is part of an "anarchist criminal cell" by transitivity (occasionally they get tired of waiting, and a police infiltrator will actively egg on more militancy).

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> Five of those killed were suspected of involvement with Al Qaeda, but the remainder were unconnected with the militancy, Yemeni security officials said." > The New York Times reported in 2013 that the Obama Administration embraced a disputed method for counting civilian casualties, which in effect counts all military-age males in a strike zone as combatants.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use militancy in a sentence?

I think though joked about, one of the most telling things about the NRA is their absolute militancy about gun rights...

What does militancy mean?

The quality of being militant.

What part of speech is militancy?

militancy is commonly used as noun.