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traitors

noun

plural of traitor

as in betrayers

one who betrays a trust or an allegiance accused by her family of being a traitor when she sold their traditionally animal-friendly business to a competitor known to use animals for testing its products

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Recent Examples of traitors In reality, the big debate has been about questions such as whether military bases should be named for traitors and whether governments should host monuments to a rebellion to defend slavery. — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 21 July 2026 Those who opposed the coup, like Tom Keith's grandfather, are still often thought of as traitors, just as his distant relatives are. — Lee Cowan, CBS News, 12 July 2026 Irina and Raskova will enjoy a long, successful professional collaboration, purging Star City of traitors and threats and bringing down Petrovsky in a plot that leads to his ending his life in ignominy, having confessed to crimes against the state. — Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 10 July 2026 The king refused to look at it, and issued the Proclamation of Rebellion, declaring the colonists traitors and hiring 30,000 German mercenaries to help crush them. — The Week Uk, TheWeek, 4 July 2026 Just one more thing … this organization does not tolerate traitors! — Gina Kalsi, PEOPLE, 24 June 2026 Keep your actual and suspected traitors closer – the non-loyal, uncommitted, secretive, suspicious, dishonest, deceitful, chronically negative, and regularly undermining. — Peter D. Banko, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026 Both groups were accused of being spies, traitors and collaborators, according to the report. — Sam Metz, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2026 When news of Israel’s secret outposts in Iraq’s desert emerged, Iraqis admonished their leaders as traitors, and the boisterous militiamen affiliated with the government as impostors for allowing their land to be colonized by an enemy. — Nabil Salih, Time, 26 May 2026

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In Roman art, invidia is sometimes depicted as a gaunt Medusa-like figure with serpents for hair.

— Jan Tumlir, Artforum, 5 Aug. 2026
Those serpents include six rattlesnake species and non-rattlers, such as the Copperhead, Water Moccasin (or Cottonmouth) and Eastern Coral snakes.

— Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2026

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There’s Tom Crutchfield, who loves women with the ardor of Pepé Le Pew but spends most of his time not in pursuit of the ladies but of exotic snakes, lizards, alligators, turtles and whatnot.

— Matthew Carey, Deadline, 8 Aug. 2026
The snakes are also some of the largest in the world, and are often measured at about six to nine feet in length.

— Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 7 Aug. 2026

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