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as in radical
being very far from the center of public opinion
a candidate with a lot of crazy, revolutionary ideas that no one seems to be going for
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as in insurgent
taking part in a rebellion
revolutionary forces that were soundly defeated before reaching the capital
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as in rebel
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 revolutionist
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 revolutionary
Justin Klawans,
TheWeek,
23 June 2026
The revolutionary fanatics running the Islamic regime aren’t interested in the welfare of the Iranian public, who were mowed down by the thousands when protesters took the streets seeking freedom.
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New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
21 June 2026
USA Today,
29 June 2026
If things go wrong, the overqualified graduate activist class could provide the revolutionaries of the future.
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Simon Sebag Montefiore,
The Atlantic,
28 June 2026
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Adjective
One of these silhouettes represented Haitian revolutionary leader Jean-Jacques Dessalines.
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Justin Klawans,
TheWeek,
23 June 2026
The revolutionary fanatics running the Islamic regime aren’t interested in the welfare of the Iranian public, who were mowed down by the thousands when protesters took the streets seeking freedom.
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New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
21 June 2026
Noun
The revolutionaries were successful after four hours but at the cost of 94 lives.
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USA Today,
29 June 2026
If things go wrong, the overqualified graduate activist class could provide the revolutionaries of the future.
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Simon Sebag Montefiore,
The Atlantic,
28 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for revolutionary
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Its faith that people can rebuild their lives and start over feels almost radical today.
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That being said, the use of such transcripts requires a radical rethinking of the evidentiary landscape and the role of juror psychology.
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Four years ago, during his insurgent first campaign, this editorial board had been wary of some of Mejia’s radical rhetoric.
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Twenty years on, Pratt is once again a figure who can’t be ignored: an insurgent challenger to Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass’s reelection bid.
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Gillespie also has a reputation for melding music to movies, as seen in Cruella, his 2021 movie that cast Disney villainess Cruella de Vil as a punk rock rebel in London’s fashion scene.
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The winner is the daughter of the late Alberto Fujimori, the former president whose government in the 1990s defeated the Shining Path extremist rebel group but also took an authoritarian turn.
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The National Weather Service said cool air from the north will push the heat dome, responsible for a heat wave that started midweek, south and west in the coming days, relieving some of the most extreme temperatures in the Northeast.
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The laminate reinforces the glass to create a shatter-resistant barrier, preventing shards of glass from flying out during extreme weather.
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This could bring about sudden ideas, or trigger rebellious impulses and creative imagination.
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In 2000 at age 15, he was sent to live in Australia with a host family because his father thought Zhang was too rebellious to stay in China.
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More than 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were systematically massacred in the East African nation by Hutu extremists over roughly 100 days from April to July 1994.
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Opportunists like the daycare group, which was selling weapons, and extremists — not the hobbyists.
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Earlier this week, Swiss anarchist-hacker Maia Arson Crimew leaked information about Dialog, the secretive, invite-only organization cofounded by right-wing tech billionaire Peter Thiel in 2006.
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Trump has long invoked the term against a range of political opponents, including peaceful protesters without anarchist-leanings.
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Actually, there was a good reason, and the reason was that those crazies over at CBS were airing this season up to SIX NIGHTS A WEEK!
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Had enough listening to crazies.
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