How to Use radical in a Sentence

radical

1 of 2 adjective

• The new president has made some radical changes to the company.
• There are some radical differences between the two proposals.
• The computer has introduced radical innovations.
• Needling Biden as a pawn of the radical left won’t do it.
  — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 22 Oct. 2020
• Time for some radical changes, first and foremost at the top.
  — WSJ, 15 Sep. 2022
• Calls for radical changes to policing have been at the heart of months of racial justice protests.
  — oregonlive, 5 Jan. 2021
• What many of us don't know is that her life was just as radical as her work.
  — The Editors, Town & Country, 3 Nov. 2022
• Here’s a radical idea: turn the top six into a top nine.
  — Matthew Defranks, Dallas News, 12 Mar. 2021
• In other words, no radical changes seem to be in the offing.
  — Dan Gallagher, WSJ, 21 Jan. 2021
• The substance of his platform would have seemed radical just a few years ago.
  — I.k. | Washington, The Economist, 1 Aug. 2019
• But a sweaty woman with a big gun—and a child—was radical.
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Mar. 2023
• The radical shift of the state GOP hasn’t come about overnight.
  — Adrian Walker, BostonGlobe.com, 20 May 2022
• Public calls mounted for the court to make radical changes.
  — Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Nov. 2021
• Putting your own story into the world is a radical act.
  — Kylie Groat, Seventeen, 1 May 2018
• That would have been a truly radical way for Stills to go.
  — Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 8 Aug. 2019
• But some of the changes our experts predict are less radical.
  — Brian Raftery, EW.com, 31 Mar. 2022
• The most timid Democrats in the world could adopt it without fear of sounding radical.
  — Alex Pareene, The New Republic, 11 Sep. 2020
• To get anything done the radical has to commit evil acts for good causes.
  — David Brooks | Opinion, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Dec. 2017
• From snug to substantial, the house presents radical shifts in scale.
  — Celia Barbour, House Beautiful, 13 Dec. 2016
• Rick is obsessed with how their ideas are still very radical.
  — Marta Balaga, Variety, 29 Aug. 2021
• Critics always have to make the case that Austen was radical.
  — Lizzie Skurnick, New York Times, 14 July 2017
• Believe it or not, that was considered a radical idea at the time!
  — Claire Shaffer, Rolling Stone, 31 July 2022
• Yet low growth on its own doesn’t explain this radical step.
  — Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 18 Oct. 2020
• This is an example of why zoning needs to catch up with radical changes.
  — Patrick Sisson, Curbed, 11 July 2018
• Dealing with the problems caused by climate change will call for some radical ideas.
  — The Economist, 24 Oct. 2019
• There is a lot that’s sensible in her plan; not a lot that’s new and radical.
  — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2022
• Even so, some of the work is rather radical for this community.
  — Avital Chizhik-Goldschmidt, The Atlantic, 24 Sep. 2021
• Many balked at the idea, dismissing it as too radical, too raw.
  — Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 30 May 2023
• Which somehow feels like her most radical achievement of all.
  — Michelle Tauber, Peoplemag, 16 Nov. 2023
• That kind of landscape doesn’t bode well for making radical change.
  — Lenora Chu, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Sep. 2021

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radical

2 of 2 noun

• He was a radical when he was young, but now he's much more moderate.
• Radicals from around the world flocked to Somalia to join in the fun.
  — Mark Moyar, The Atlantic, 14 May 2017
• But in the weeks since, the wild-haired radical has pedaled backward.
  — Samantha Schmidt, Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2023
• There were always new-left radicals who tried to build bridges.
  — John B. Judis, Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2020
• Arrayed against it are conservatives on the right and radicals on the left.
  — Barton Swaim, WSJ, 28 June 2019
• On one side were black and white radicals and liberals.
  — Bill McGraw, Detroit Free Press, 29 July 2017
• Post knew, and had published, many of the leading reformers and radicals of the day.
  — Adam Hochschild, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2019
• In the next movie, the villains were right-wing cops abusing the law to eliminate radicals.
  — Graeme McMillan, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Feb. 2018
• Nor has the president proved to be the leftist radical that some of his opponents feared.
  — Washington Post, 6 June 2021
• The radicals get the headlines simply because their voices are the loudest.
  — Michael Zimm, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2018
• The pose of the radical has been subverted to capitalist ends.
  — Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 23 June 2020
• People who lose their homes and households try to do things in desperation and this strengthens the hands of the radicals.
  — Washington Post, 11 Feb. 2020
• Turns out there are rewards for not yielding to campus radicals.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 8 Mar. 2019
• But such radicals also invoke loopholes to get around this rule.
  — Mohammad Hassan Khalil, The Conversation, 20 June 2019
• Right now, to my way of thinking, the Democrats are the radicals, because after four and five and six months.
  — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 17 Sep. 2023
• My roommate thought Dylan was a radical who wanted to shake things up, as if that were a bad thing.
  — Beth Thames | [e-mail], al, 26 May 2021
• The truth of the matter is that these are just a few radicals from an enormous group of followers of the religion of Islam.
  — Sehrish Ali, Teen Vogue, 15 Feb. 2018
• Heightening the contradictions of the system is a longtime tactic of radicals on the left.
  — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 19 Sep. 2017
• Stills was an army brat and far from a hippie radical; he was driven and a perfectionist.
  — Bill Wyman, Vulture, 20 Jan. 2023
• But he's moved far enough to the left that many Republicans still hammer him as a radical.
  — Arkansas Online, 3 Sep. 2020
• As with the ragtag group of radicals in their film, each brought their expertise to pull off a job that no one thought was possible.
  — Katie Rife, Vulture, 12 Apr. 2023
• There were no radicals or young people, and there was no spokesman for the black nationalist movement.
  — Steven M. Gillon, Time, 1 Mar. 2018
• Frustrated by the absence of clear choices, many turn to radicals and populists.
  — Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2019
• But her severity aligned her with the young township radicals who enforced commitment to the struggle.
  — Alan Cowell, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Apr. 2018
• Pundits warned of radicals taking Brussels by storm and sending the bloc into chaos.
  — Ken Fisher, USA TODAY, 30 June 2019
• Their West Hampstead apartment became a hub for artists and radicals of all stripes.
  — Penelope Green, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2023
• Saudi rulers were handling the hardware, while radicals rewrote the nation’s software.
  — Adel Al-Toraifi, WSJ, 19 Mar. 2018
• Officials have said the women are radicals or have been paid to be there, and many believe a police crackdown is imminent.
  — New York Times, 30 Jan. 2020
• That’s a very large percentage of people, who wouldn’t even call themselves radicals.
  — Isaac Feldberg, BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2018
• Colonel Irish lost both rounds to the environmental radicals.
  — National Geographic, 25 Jan. 2016

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