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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A communist group is waging a 21-year insurgency against the national government.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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About 50,000 people are estimated to have been killed in a decade of insurgency .
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But the final results placed him second and suggested that the Buchanan insurgency was ebbing.
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He was a gun-toting, pitchfork-brandishing, wall-building, Confederate flag-waving, black-hatted leader of an anti-establishment insurgency .
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Land mines are popular among armies and insurgencies because they are cheap to buy but expensive to clear.
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Maybe what they were planning would count as some kind of insurgency , treason perhaps?
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Salvador Samayoa was a leader of the Marxist insurgency seeking to defeat the army.
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The measures imposed new restrictions on press reporting of the Kurdish insurgency in south-east Anatolia.