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as in radicals
a person who favors rapid and sweeping changes especially in laws and methods of government
after the collapse of the Russian monarchy, the moderate socialists briefly governed until being overthrown by the Bolshevik revolutionaries
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as in rebels
a person who rises up against authority
at first the government was not worried about this small band of unarmed revolutionaries
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Recent Examples of revolutionaries
Each robot, remotely operated, clinks glasses and gestures in unison, embodying the camaraderie and hope of the musical’s revolutionaries.
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Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 3 Nov. 2025
Paul’s youth and vigor comes with lots of risk, the work of prior revolutionaries threatened to be set back many years.
—David John Chávez, Mercury News, 28 Oct. 2025
At the time, the French people reporting on the ground and from abroad held Dessalines and other Haitian revolutionaries to a different standard.
—Julia Gaffield, The Conversation, 15 Oct. 2025
The Mexican actor plays revolutionaries in both season 2 of Star Wars series Andor and new movie musical, Kiss of the Spider Woman.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Oct. 2025
Anderson’s chaotic but intensely touching father-daughter saga is set against a cluttered canvas of revolutionaries, cultists and political hustlers.
—Peter Bart, Deadline, 9 Oct. 2025
The appearance of redcoats in the streets convinced many of those in the latter camp, along with some former revolutionaries, to side with the British cause.
—Time, 9 Oct. 2025
Part of what Anderson leaves the viewer with at the end of the film is the reassurance that revolutionaries keep coming.
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 8 Oct. 2025
Is this focus a consequence of the documents and interview subjects available to you, or is the Revolution best understood by studying its principal revolutionaries?
—Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 8 Oct. 2025
Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 3 Nov. 2025
Paul’s youth and vigor comes with lots of risk, the work of prior revolutionaries threatened to be set back many years.
—David John Chávez, Mercury News, 28 Oct. 2025
At the time, the French people reporting on the ground and from abroad held Dessalines and other Haitian revolutionaries to a different standard.
—Julia Gaffield, The Conversation, 15 Oct. 2025
The Mexican actor plays revolutionaries in both season 2 of Star Wars series Andor and new movie musical, Kiss of the Spider Woman.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Oct. 2025
Anderson’s chaotic but intensely touching father-daughter saga is set against a cluttered canvas of revolutionaries, cultists and political hustlers.
—Peter Bart, Deadline, 9 Oct. 2025
The appearance of redcoats in the streets convinced many of those in the latter camp, along with some former revolutionaries, to side with the British cause.
—Time, 9 Oct. 2025
Part of what Anderson leaves the viewer with at the end of the film is the reassurance that revolutionaries keep coming.
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 8 Oct. 2025
Is this focus a consequence of the documents and interview subjects available to you, or is the Revolution best understood by studying its principal revolutionaries?
—Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 8 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for revolutionaries
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With the treaty up for renewal, a group of Black World radicals seeks to stop the agreement so that demons can wipe out humans and overtake our existence.—
Declan Gallagher,
Entertainment Weekly,
30 Oct. 2025
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Young radicals weren’t the only ones who sought Moore out.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Oct. 2025
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Young Ofelia and her pregnant mother have been brought to live in the countryside, where her brutal stepfather Captain Vidal’s job is to wipe out the remaining rebels camped in the local forest.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
5 Nov. 2025
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The apparent killing – captured on video shared online by the rebels themselves – took place at a university medical school in El Fasher in Sudan’s western Darfur region after the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) took over the city on Sunday.—
Ivana Kottasová,
CNN Money,
30 Oct. 2025
Noun
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But there’s nothing good about voting in two extremists into office, under any party affiliation.—
Nicole Russell,
USA Today,
6 Nov. 2025
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The message referenced the murder of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, who was killed by Islamic extremists in 2004 after releasing a short film critical of Islam.—
Peter Kiefer,
HollywoodReporter,
5 Nov. 2025
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Yet those soldiers and sailors had to stretch across a vast global canvas, leaving fewer than three in ten of them to try to rout the insurgents in North America.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Nov. 2025
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Subsequent reporting showed how Maduro loyalists infiltrated the training camps of the would-be liberators and betrayed their cause, leading to the execution of six leaders and capture of dozens of insurgents.—
Antonio Maria Delgado,
Miami Herald,
7 Nov. 2025
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The press has cast stones at One Battle After Another for its $140 million production cost, saying a car chase movie about anarchists should never have cost that much.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
28 Oct. 2025
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Notable inmates once held at the jail include Boston Mayor James Michael Curley, anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, civil rights leader Malcolm X and mobster Whitey Bulger, according to records.—
Deirdre Bardolf,
FOXNews.com,
25 Oct. 2025
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That means, at times, policing its own—and not letting the crazies run the asylum.—
Josh Hammer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Oct. 2025
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“Revolutionaries.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/revolutionaries. Accessed 20 Nov. 2025.
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