militant
adjective
mil·i·tant
ˈmi-lə-tənt 
1
: engaged in warfare or combat : fighting
2
: aggressively active (as in a cause) : combative
militant conservationists
a militant attitude
militant
noun
militantly
adverb
militantness
noun
Synonyms
Examples of militant in a Sentence
an angry and militant speech
political radicals with a militant unwillingness to compromise on any issue
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Israel repeatedly claimed that a Hamas command center sat underneath the medical complex and that the militant group has used it to hold hostages.
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Helen Regan, CNN, 2 July 2024
Meta is not the only Big Tech outfit to face tough content calls in the context of the Israel-Gaza war, which began when Hamas, the militant group that ruled Gaza for a generation, slaughtered 1,139 people in Israel on Oct. 7 last year.
—Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 2 July 2024
Those who denounce militant fealty within the Republican Party shouldn’t enforce similar purity tests in their own ranks.
—Pamela Paul, The Mercury News, 29 June 2024
Fear that months of deadly tit-for-tat violence on the Lebanese border could devolve into an even more devastating conflict peaked this month, after Israel assassinated a senior Hezbollah commander and the militant group retaliated with massive rocket barrages.
—Sarah Dadouch, Washington Post, 28 June 2024
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Helen Regan, CNN, 2 July 2024
Meta is not the only Big Tech outfit to face tough content calls in the context of the Israel-Gaza war, which began when Hamas, the militant group that ruled Gaza for a generation, slaughtered 1,139 people in Israel on Oct. 7 last year.
—Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 2 July 2024
Those who denounce militant fealty within the Republican Party shouldn’t enforce similar purity tests in their own ranks.
—Pamela Paul, The Mercury News, 29 June 2024
Fear that months of deadly tit-for-tat violence on the Lebanese border could devolve into an even more devastating conflict peaked this month, after Israel assassinated a senior Hezbollah commander and the militant group retaliated with massive rocket barrages.
—Sarah Dadouch, Washington Post, 28 June 2024
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militant
adjective
mil·i·tant
ˈmil-ə-tənt
1
: being at war
2
: aggressively active especially in a cause
militant protesters
militant
noun
militantly
adverb
militantness
noun
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