antiriot
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antiriot (not comparable)
- Serving to counteract rioting.
- 1990, Brigitte Lebens Nacos, The Press, Presidents, and Crises:
- Thus, the administration was not in favor of an antiriot bill before Congress that was designed to curb militant blacks suspected of encouraging riots.
- 2001, Neil Websdale, Policing the poor:
- ...who told him that things were spiraling out of control in Edgehill and that the police were conducting antiriot maneuvers there.
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serving to counteract rioting
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