terrorist group
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- noun
- /ˈtɛrərist ɡruːp/
- NSFW
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grupo terrorista
- Do you think they should label them a terrorist group like in in the United States?
- terrorist group attack
- funds for terrorist groups
- Al Qaeda terrorist group
But remember that these terrorist groups and these narcotics groups coexist.
- But remember that these terrorist groups and these narcotics groups coexist.
- The problem is Israel versus Hamas terrorist groups and cells within Palestine.
- More ominously, how long will it take before a terrorist group lays its hand on a nuclear weapon?
- I've been shot at a lot, and I've seen the rise of terrorist groups like Al Qaeda and ISIS.
- We got a whole bunch of people from these Kashmiri terrorist groups.
- They run more as like businesses instead of terrorist groups.
- But yeah, I mean, they supported a number of terrorist groups, didn't support al Qaeda.
- Just as the people of Israel would like to live in peace and free from the threat of attack from a terrorist group that wants to exterminate them.
- Countering ISIL, al Qaeda and other terrorist groups.
- Like, you know, a lot of people kind of romanticize the the IRA, you know, the terrorist group over there.
- It took a while for the Iranians to realize the existential threat to Iran was a radical Sunni extremist terrorist group.
Examples
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That said, a lot of terrorist groups are still being very, very creative in the ways that they fabricate IEDs.
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Hours ago, one of our medical facilities that is responsible for vaccines was destroyed by an unnamed terrorist group.
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If that many people were being killed by some terrorist group in the United States every year, we would find them.
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As the decades pass, it will only grow easier for terrorist groups to obtain such weapons.
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All we know is, it was made by an international terrorist group named Highland.
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We're up against the highly organized Islamic terrorist group.
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The local police commissioner issued a public warning about a right-wing terrorist group.
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But on balance, centralized terrorist groups pose the greater threat to the United States.
Academic text (2008) -
While the security barrier has curtailed terrorist attacks, the terrorist groups have not stopped trying.
Academic text (2008) -
The local police commissioner issued a public warning about a terrorist group operating in the area.
Synonyms
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5.3
A group that uses violence to frighten people to reach political goals
How Organized
- NSFW
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- Literature
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'terrorist' (someone who commits politically motivated violent acts) combined with 'group' (a number of people) yields an organized set of terrorists. This straightforward noun + noun combination is cross‑linguistically common and would be understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
Terrorist group comes from the words terror, meaning great fear, and group, meaning people who act together. Imagine people using violence and threats to make others 'scared' to reach 'political goals', so today 'terrorist group' means an organized group that uses violence and threats for political goals.