revolutionaries

plural of revolutionary

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Recent Examples of revolutionaries 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 Such was the importance placed on the tree for mobilizing resistance that in 1775, it was cut down by British soldiers to demoralize the revolutionaries. Ellen Walker, JSTOR Daily, 3 Sep. 2025 Anderson could have done more to dig into the bizarre kaleidoscope of Iranian revolutionaries in the 1960s and ’70s, showing us why the best and brightest of a rapidly advancing society would line up behind an obscurantist like Khomeini. Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 5 Aug. 2025
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Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • By 2018, Assad had control of Damascus and Aleppo, and the rebels were confined to a jihadist ministate in Idlib.
    Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Yemen’s Houthi rebels on Saturday vowed to take revenge for the killing of their prime minister and other political leaders by Israeli airstrikes earlier this week.
    Eyad Kourdi, CNN Money, 30 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The Middle Belt and northern states are especially volatile, with Islamic militant groups like Boko Haram, Fulani extremists and ISWAP (Islamic State West Africa Province) targeting Christian communities through mass killings, kidnappings and church burnings.
    Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Only the liberals and the extremists do that.
    Tom Tapp, Deadline, 12 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • This might enable a mission which, for example, a Viper is located covertly next to a safe house known to be used by insurgents.
    David Hambling, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The state Republicans have routinely witnessed battles between far-right insurgents who in recent years have complained the party isn’t Trumpy enough and the financial institutional wing that has long been the GOP establishment and funded the party for decades.
    Rick Pearson, Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Throughout the late nineteenth century and much of the twentieth, Jewish socialists, liberals, anarchists, and Zionists all saw their respective political programs as offering a remedy for anti-Semitism.
    Daniel May, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
  • As political scientist Krzysztof Wasilewski writes, in the 1880s, tarring immigrants as anarchists became a convenient way for American media to smear labor organizing.
    Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 9 Aug. 2024

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“Revolutionaries.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/revolutionaries. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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