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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
Joobin Bekhrad, Time, 10 June 2026
Visitors can also see a 1766 prayer book — with some revolutionary edits.
—Nikki Dementri, CBS News, 9 June 2026
Laurie Kellman, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2026
Not helping was Parliament's passage of the Tea Act in 1773, to which revolutionaries responded by dumping tea into Boston Harbor.
—ABC News, 3 June 2026
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Adjective
But Satrapi rejected the role of spokesperson or revolutionary leader that many successful Iranians in the diaspora are only too eager to assume.
—Joobin Bekhrad, Time, 10 June 2026
Visitors can also see a 1766 prayer book — with some revolutionary edits.
—Nikki Dementri, CBS News, 9 June 2026
Noun
Not helping was Parliament’s passage of the Tea Act in 1773, to which revolutionaries responded by dumping tea into Boston Harbor.
—Laurie Kellman, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2026
Not helping was Parliament's passage of the Tea Act in 1773, to which revolutionaries responded by dumping tea into Boston Harbor.
—ABC News, 3 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for revolutionary
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In some respects, Penryn is the ideal setting for such a radical experiment to take place.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 June 2026
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But for somebody who has alternative therapies, how scared are people of doing something as radical as editing their genome?—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
11 June 2026
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Others like Asleep at the Wheel founder Ray Benson highlighted Malo’s rebellious side, sharing a hazy memory of a joint shared in a Grammy Awards bathroom.—
Chris Parton,
Rolling Stone,
6 Dec. 2025
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Pulley credits that campaign with helping change the image of motorcycles from rebellious to something more acceptable to the mainstream and boosting Honda’s sales position dramatically.—
Eric D. Lawrence,
Freep.com,
4 Dec. 2025
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At least 30 people were killed, including patients, after an airstrike by Myanmar’s ruling junta hit a major hospital in the western state of Rakhine, a rebel group, an aid worker and a witness said Thursday.—
Reuters,
NBC news,
11 Dec. 2025
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Behrouz Vossoughi, a new-wave actor loved by anti-shah rebels, was her co-star in many films and eventually her second husband.—
Arash Azizi,
The Atlantic,
10 Dec. 2025
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In 2022, French forces departed Mali as insurgents made incursions into the capital, Bamako.—
Kaitlyn Rabe,
The Conversation,
16 June 2026
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The press aims to champion writing that is urgent and insurgent.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
11 June 2026
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After the game, the team were addressed by a group of government officials who, according to Ilunga at least, threatened them with extreme consequences if things went really badly in their game against Brazil.—
Nick Miller,
New York Times,
17 June 2026
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After all the angst about traffic, high ticket prices, long security lines and extreme heat, stadium operations ran relatively smoothly.—
Michelle Kaufman,
Miami Herald,
16 June 2026
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The collection drew inspiration from two seemingly distant sources: a still-life painting of a shirt collar by Joe Brainard, the prolific 1960s New York writer and artist, and a short story by Yu Dafu, the early 20th-century Chinese author and revolutionist.—
Denni Hu,
Footwear News,
17 Oct. 2025
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In a country shackled and scarred by race, religion, gender, and class, much of that rationalized and reified by mainline American churches, the Disciples were genial revolutionists offering inclusion, education, and empowerment for those at the margins.—
Richard D. Mahoney,
JSTOR Daily,
30 Apr. 2025
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More recently, the Department of Justice charged the Southern Poverty Law Center — a civil rights nonprofit accused by Republicans of targeting conservatives in its work tracking extremists — with defrauding donors through payments to informants.—
James Pollard,
Los Angeles Times,
15 June 2026
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While Israel has faced recent criticism over treatment of Christians – mostly at the hands of a few extremists – the country is seen as a beacon of freedom of religion in the Middle East.—
Amelie Botbol,
FOXNews.com,
11 June 2026
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McKinley was reelected in 1900, but then assassinated by an anarchist at the 1901 Pan American Exposition in Buffalo.—
Scott Wartman,
The Enquirer,
2 July 2025
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In 1927, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, two working-class Italian anarchists charged with murder, were sent to the electric chair in Massachusetts, setting off protests around the world.—
Zachary Fine,
New Yorker,
24 June 2025
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“Revolutionary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/revolutionary. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.
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