Fighters
Supporters and fighters are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Supporters" instead a noun "Fighters".
Supporters
Fighters and supporters are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Fighters" instead a noun "Supporters".
Both words in one sentence
- They make it very clear they consider themselves freedom fighters, and the empire as harmful, but the Empire's supporters (and pre-villainization Murtagh) occasionally call them out for their less than stellar behavior, so obviously some people think of them as terrorists.
- In the Bernard Cornwell novel "Scoundrel" a group of Provisional IRA members have great contempt for their Irish-American supporters who think that simply giving money to The Cause entitles them to think of themselves as 'freedom fighters'.
Source: Pretender Diss -
Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters: The federal government considers the NVA to be terrorist racists (which they are, as admitted in the novel) while the NVA and their supporters consider the Federal government to be an imperialist multi-racial empire (which it is in the novel).
Source: Literature / Northwest Front
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