radicals

plural of radical

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Recent Examples of radicals Soon, Joan ends up on the run with young radicals. Marta Balaga, Variety, 6 Sep. 2025 Lightning also sparks hydroxyl radicals, which help cleanse the air by breaking down methane and other gases. Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 29 Aug. 2025 On the one side, bell bottoms became the signature look of 1970s radicals. Stephen Mihm, Twin Cities, 22 Aug. 2025 And then there's the question of whether this bipartisanship extends to the House, where the shorter terms in office have tended to lead to a chamber with a significantly larger population of radicals. ArsTechnica, 19 Aug. 2025 Hasina's ouster has left both political as well as security vacuums, giving more space to religious radicals. Michael Kugelman, NPR, 21 Dec. 2024 Obama ended up funding and arming the Syrian opposition so feebly it was slaughtered and – when its extremists joined up with radicals from Iraq’s long-running insurgency against the US occupation – metastasized into ISIS. Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 7 Dec. 2024 In fact, the group’s radicals are likely to be emboldened. Saeid Golkar, Foreign Affairs, 11 Oct. 2024 The Black Panther Party in the late 1960s organized Puerto Rican radicals and Confederate flag-waving white Southerner transplants to help tackle poverty and discrimination in Chicago — an effort that drew attention from the FBI. Russell Contreras, Axios, 1 Oct. 2024
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Noun
  • Further east, the Russian revolutionaries of 1917 adopted a utopian faith in material progress and science.
    Sonja Fritzsche, The Conversation, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The film was One Battle After Another, Anderson’s high-octane adaptation of Vineland, Thomas Pynchon’s anarchic 1990 novel about a crew of former leftist revolutionaries — the French 75 — living in a slightly more dystopian version of present-day America.
    Seija Rankin, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • TikTok, Bluesky, Substack, the gaming platform Discord and other new players, big and small, can all learn from past policies for keeping extremists off the Internet—and return to those content moderation roots.
    Steven Stalinsky, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • High-profile extremists of the time such as Richard Butler, Robert Mathews and David Lane supported the plan.
    Paul J. Becker, The Conversation, 5 Sep. 2025

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“Radicals.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/radicals. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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