form of rebellion

collocation in English

meaningsofformandrebellion

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form
noun
uk
/fɔːm/us
/fɔːrm/
a paper or set of papers printed with spaces in which answers to questions can be written or information can be recorded in an ...
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rebellion
noun[C or U]
uk
/rɪˈbel.i.ən/us
/rɪˈbel.i.ən/
violent action organized by a group of people who are trying to change the political system in ...
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(Definition offormandrebellionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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By the latter, the report means those who continue with a particularformofrebellion, or who continue to react against their environment.
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There were shoals of manifestations of aformofrebellionagainst the established system of the day.
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He described supporting oneformofrebellion: a huge, subterranean informal economy that's opposed by the larger, established companies...
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There is some support among young people, which tends to be aformofrebellionagainst the inevitably parochial culture of the island.
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The backlash against these social norms has become a traditionalformofrebellion.
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While women didn't literally burn their bras, some women stopped wearing bras as aformofrebellionor protest.
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This young person that chooses this fashion as aformofrebelliondoes this because they still wish to belong to a group just not a mainstream group.
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The need for dramatic change may be personal (drastically changing one's life) or take theformofrebellionin the name of creating a better world.
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Civil resistance movements have often aimed at, and brought about, the fall of a government or head of state, and in these cases could be considered aformofrebellion.
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They are moving increasingly towards forms of rebellion—one can sympathise with the need for rebellion in these circumstances—that often take anti-social forms.
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Second, the text expressly proposes deviant practices as forms of rebellion.
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