revolutionaries

plural of revolutionary

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Recent Examples of revolutionaries 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 Yet through Bob, Anderson finds his way into this story in a way that feels self-reflective and in conversation with a whole generation of coulda been revolutionaries. Richard Newby, HollywoodReporter, 30 Sep. 2025 Creating the technology for revolutionaries operating in an amorphous present, such as the scanner device, was another fascinating challenge. Pat Saperstein, Variety, 27 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for revolutionaries
Noun
  • Power to the People is a portrait of John and Yoko as a young married couple splashing down in New York City, making friends with the local radicals and con men and boho scenesters.
    Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Before our very eyes, left-wing radicals toppled his statues, vandalized his monuments, tarnished his character, and sought to exile him from our public spaces.
    Addy Bink, The Hill, 12 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The Romans were masters at using rewards and punishment to manage foreign states, from grants of citizenship to massacres of rebels.
    Barry Strauss, Time, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Currently Colombia’s security forces are facing their biggest threat since the 2016 peace deal with FARC rebels, fighting a slew of powerful armed groups tied to the narcotics trade.
    Alfie Pannell, Miami Herald, 20 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The Goldman analysts aren’t extremists like, say, legendary venture capitalist Vinod Khosla, who says AI will automate 80% of all jobs by 2030.
    Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Far too many school boards are being overtaken by far-right extremists determined to distort our public education system and target LGBTQ+ youth.
    Chris Ward, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The best challenger brands think like cultural insurgents.
    Erik Huberman, Rolling Stone, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Islamist insurgents have since May attacked Malian and foreign-owned businesses, including cement factories, sugar factories, and mines.
    Preeti Jha, semafor.com, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Tara could fall into that category, just like the Abbotsfield shooter and the trio of eco-anarchists who are deployed later in the episode.
    Scott Tobias, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • 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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