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  • adjective Opposed to or combating a particular state or government

Etymologies

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anti- +‎ state

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Examples

  • Some reports suggested that Abdul Rashid was let off the hook under a secret deal in which he promised that he would no longer involve himself in political and antistate activities.27

    The Scorpion’s Tail Zahid Hussain 2010

  • And I think the left-lib story on plutocracy and antistate solidarity has a pretty comprehensible answer to those questions.

    Direct action gets the goods 2009

  • But Pakistan's telecom authority has also regularly filtered content determined to be antistate or antimilitary, according to the OpenNet Initiative, a global organization that promotes freedom of information on the Internet.

    How a System Error in Pakistan Shut YouTube 2008

  • It has burned up and blasted apart more innocents in the past six decades than have all the antistate terrorists who ever lived.

    Bombs Away 2008

  • Given the enormous variability in the use of the term “capitalism,” then, it will hardly do to base a crucial distinction among antistate thinkers on their attitudes to some undefined abstraction called “capitalism.”

    Calling All Haters Of Anarcho-Capitalism 2007

  • The government has closed down two independent television networks, accusing them of "antistate activities."

    Pakistan Frees 3,000 Detainees as Criticism Mounts 2007

  • As a result, opposition within these states becomes radicalized; opposition activism becomes, by definition, antistate activity.

    The J Curve Ian Bremmer 2006

  • As a result, opposition within these states becomes radicalized; opposition activism becomes, by definition, antistate activity.

    The J Curve Ian Bremmer 2006

  • As a result, opposition within these states becomes radicalized; opposition activism becomes, by definition, antistate activity.

    The J Curve Ian Bremmer 2006

  • As a result, opposition within these states becomes radicalized; opposition activism becomes, by definition, antistate activity.

    The J Curve Ian Bremmer 2006

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