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Recent Examples of treasonous
By then, no official blacklist existed but she was routinely assailed by right wingers as a treasonous ingrate and tool of Hanoi.
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Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Feb. 2025
Edward Snowden's treasonous betrayal of the United States and its most sensitive lawful intelligence activities endangered sources, methods, and lives.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 12 Feb. 2025
Doing this would officially make Peter a traitor, though Jacob is quick to reassure him that the memory of his treasonous father should have no bearing on his decision.
—Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 24 Jan. 2025
In Aida’s final scene, the treasonous general Radamés, who has been interred as punishment, finds his slave princess waiting for him in the shadows.
—Justin Davidson, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2025
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Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Feb. 2025
Edward Snowden's treasonous betrayal of the United States and its most sensitive lawful intelligence activities endangered sources, methods, and lives.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 12 Feb. 2025
Doing this would officially make Peter a traitor, though Jacob is quick to reassure him that the memory of his treasonous father should have no bearing on his decision.
—Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 24 Jan. 2025
In Aida’s final scene, the treasonous general Radamés, who has been interred as punishment, finds his slave princess waiting for him in the shadows.
—Justin Davidson, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for treasonous
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Michael Fassbender plays a British intelligence officer tasked with finding who leaked a top-secret software program and betrayed their country, and the list of five potentially traitorous suspects includes his own high-profile wife (Cate Blanchett).—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
10 May 2025
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Smith made out their former collaborators to be ungrateful and traitorous, and the kids weren't given the space to question her command.—
Zoey Lyttle,
People.com,
18 Apr. 2025
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Among those set free with Trump's acts of clemency were Enrique Tarrio, leader of the far-right Proud Boys, who received the longest sentence of 22 years for seditious conspiracy.—
Phillip M. Bailey,
USA Today,
29 June 2025
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Trump pardoned or commuted the sentences of all of them on his first day back in the White House, releasing from prison people convicted of seditious conspiracy and violent assaults on police.—
Alanna Durkin Richer,
Los Angeles Times,
28 June 2025
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At least three people were killed in the treacherous flood waters streaming through a mountain village in New Mexico, which also knocked an entire home from its foundations and then swept it away.—
Jessica Schladebeck,
New York Daily News,
9 July 2025
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The search has been complicated by treacherous terrain, and the fact that crews are looking for an Army veteran skilled in wilderness survival who had a three-day head start.—
Cindy Von Quednow,
CNN Money,
7 July 2025
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“Treasonous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/treasonous. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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