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Recent Examples of young Turk
And then some young Turk comes along who's not in a routine and can knock you right off your perch.
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Robert B. Tucker, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
Robert B. Tucker, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for young Turk
Noun
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Anderson’s never been able to treat political zeal as more than another personality quirk — the film’s own jungle-dwelling radicals, led by Sergio (Richard Ayoade), might as well be the Max Fischer Players for how seriously their motivations are taken.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
18 May 2025
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Not radicals who litmus test the audience’s voting history.—
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
8 May 2025
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Set in a crumbling Japanese metropolis rebuilt after a devastating explosion, Akira follows teenage rebels Kaneda and Tetsuo as secret government experiments unleash psychic forces capable of unmaking the world.—
Samantha Bergeson,
IndieWire,
21 May 2025
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Bombs go off to separate the authorities from the rebels.—
Dessi Gomez,
Deadline,
20 May 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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And many revolutionists think that new equipment has changed the patterns of advance and retreat in Ukraine relative to historical experience.—
Stephen Biddle,
Foreign Affairs,
10 Aug. 2023
Noun
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The film centers on the young Syrian revolutionaries who rebel against the regime of then-Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad’s and create an secret underground library with thousands of books buried under the ruins.—
Elsa Keslassy,
Variety,
14 May 2025
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There, Neto and Rafael — revolutionaries and lovers — are separated by the Salvadoran conflict.—
Chris Vognar,
Los Angeles Times,
14 May 2025
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At the time anti-Israel agitators rushed into the library, students were studying for final exams.—
Adam Sabes,
FOXNews.com,
9 May 2025
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Behind this model lies a transnational alliance of libertarian think tanks, financial elites, and far-right agitators who see Argentina as a test case.—
Nicholas Creel,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 May 2025
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As threats from insurgents faded, crackdowns by an authoritarian government surged.—
Mitra Taj,
New York Times,
17 May 2025
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As a result, the new international legal architecture curbed starvation tactics in interstate wars and during occupations but stopped short of fully criminalizing the weapon, particularly when used by poorer states against insurgent groups in civil wars.—
Boyd van Dijk,
Foreign Affairs,
30 Apr. 2025
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“Young Turk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/young%20Turk. Accessed 25 May. 2025.
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