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But that distinction would have made little sense to seventeenth-century women, whose religious radicalism led them to make vehement political critiques of their own society.—Chandler Fritz, The New York Review of Books, 21 Mar. 2026 The challenge of Islamic terrorism in America is that, just like the homegrown terrorism of white supremacists, the radicalism is often diffuse.—Juliette Kayyem, The Atlantic, 10 Mar. 2026 Warnings about the radicalism of Jay Jones and Spanberger never stuck.—Ray Nothstine, Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2026 Fortunately, Kaplan quickly dispenses with this generic figure of resistance and dives into what made Decca’s radicalism so singular.—Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for radicalism