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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
Parts of the movie were adapted from the novel Vineland, and some of the radical groups and revolutionaries were loosely inspired by real-life movements from the 1960s and 1970s.
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Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 21 Dec. 2025
Sometimes revolutionaries come on the scene, guiding how mathematicians think about a particular field for generations.
—Jordana Cepelewicz, Quanta Magazine, 18 Dec. 2025
Think of the Iranian shah’s secret police, the SAVAK, which the revolutionaries angrily dissolved in 1979 only to carry over many of its practices, prisons, and even personnel into a new organization, SAVAMA.
—Stephen Kotkin, Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2025
In the film, Infiniti plays Willa Ferguson, the fearless daughter of former revolutionaries Bob Ferguson (DiCaprio) and Perfidia Beverly Hills (Taylor).
—Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 3 Dec. 2025
Fittingly for a year of cinema about dissidents and revolutionaries, Oscar season kicked off in earnest with Monday night’s Gotham Awards, an awards ceremony at war with itself.
—Nate Jones, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025
Amid the intensifying Cold War, the government sought to mobilize popular support by resurrecting Russian nationalism, once an anathema to socialist revolutionaries.
—Wendy Z. Goldman, The Conversation, 1 Dec. 2025
Cortinas’ efforts for the government to reveal the truth about her son’s whereabouts sparked the Madres de Plaza de Mayo movement, where the mothers of revolutionaries protested and pressured the despotic government for information about their missing children.
—Andrew McGowan, Variety, 26 Nov. 2025
Each robot, remotely operated, clinks glasses and gestures in unison, embodying the camaraderie and hope of the musical’s revolutionaries.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 3 Nov. 2025
Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 21 Dec. 2025
Sometimes revolutionaries come on the scene, guiding how mathematicians think about a particular field for generations.
—Jordana Cepelewicz, Quanta Magazine, 18 Dec. 2025
Think of the Iranian shah’s secret police, the SAVAK, which the revolutionaries angrily dissolved in 1979 only to carry over many of its practices, prisons, and even personnel into a new organization, SAVAMA.
—Stephen Kotkin, Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2025
In the film, Infiniti plays Willa Ferguson, the fearless daughter of former revolutionaries Bob Ferguson (DiCaprio) and Perfidia Beverly Hills (Taylor).
—Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 3 Dec. 2025
Fittingly for a year of cinema about dissidents and revolutionaries, Oscar season kicked off in earnest with Monday night’s Gotham Awards, an awards ceremony at war with itself.
—Nate Jones, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025
Amid the intensifying Cold War, the government sought to mobilize popular support by resurrecting Russian nationalism, once an anathema to socialist revolutionaries.
—Wendy Z. Goldman, The Conversation, 1 Dec. 2025
Cortinas’ efforts for the government to reveal the truth about her son’s whereabouts sparked the Madres de Plaza de Mayo movement, where the mothers of revolutionaries protested and pressured the despotic government for information about their missing children.
—Andrew McGowan, Variety, 26 Nov. 2025
Each robot, remotely operated, clinks glasses and gestures in unison, embodying the camaraderie and hope of the musical’s revolutionaries.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 3 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for revolutionaries
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But a tragedy that falls on this woman and all of the radicals who teach people that immigration is the one type of law that rioters are allowed to interfere with.—
Thao Nguyen,
USA Today,
9 Jan. 2026
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In the wake of an ICE shooting that killed a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday, academics have joined the chorus of left-wing radicals seeking to abolish the federal law enforcement agency.—
Peter D'Abrosca,
FOXNews.com,
8 Jan. 2026
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By providing only air cover for the rebels, our intervention left the situation on the ground to the local competing forces, tribes and militias, which were divided then and remain divided to this day.—
Thomas L. Friedman,
Mercury News,
6 Jan. 2026
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He's accused of running a network that partnered with violent groups including Mexico’s Sinaloa and Zetas cartels, Colombian FARC rebels and Venezuela's Tren de Aragua gang.—
Kathryn Palmer,
USA Today,
5 Jan. 2026
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The move threatens to destabilize a relatively stable region and make Somaliland a target for extremists, while promising trade and investment.—
Sam Metz,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Jan. 2026
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Some nihilistic violent extremists carry out violence with the goal of hastening the collapse of society — a philosophy known as accelerationism.—
Lauren Fichten,
CBS News,
12 Jan. 2026
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In the eighties, Petro was a member of the M-19, urban insurgents who caught the world’s attention by taking the American Ambassador and more than a dozen other foreign diplomats hostage for two months.—
Jon Lee Anderson,
New Yorker,
15 Jan. 2026
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Syria’s al-Assad went down after Israel gutted Lebanese Hezbollah, following which Turkish aided and directed insurgents representing a minority of the country marched into Damascus.—
Eliot A. Cohen,
The Atlantic,
4 Jan. 2026
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When the violence fails to stop after the formal Purge ends, two families must band together to escape the anarchists by crossing into Mexico, but with the United States under siege, surviving will be much more difficult than just making it through one deadly night.—
Declan Gallagher,
Entertainment Weekly,
26 Dec. 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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The cool-kid leftist pod for listeners intrigued enough to wade through the Jeffrey Epstein conspiracy sandbox, but who didn’t want to wade through the actual crazies, has become an anchor for a thriving alt-media ecosystem that’s long been ready for a skeptical, leftward, socialist-curious turn.—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
8 Dec. 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 21 Jan. 2026.
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