young Turk

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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. Robert B. Tucker, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
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Noun
  • Voters in primary elections may nominate extremists to run in the general election, leaving independents no choice but to vote for the lesser of two evils or to abstain from voting for either.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 26 Jan. 2026
  • My fellow Republicans have been holding firm in labeling Renee Good a domestic extremist, asserting that her actions constituted a violent threat motivated by ideological aims.
    Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 21 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Then the Department of Justice ordered federal prosecutors and the FBI to investigate Good’s family for ties to left-wing radicals, leading several prosecutors to resign.
    The Atlantic, The Atlantic, 26 Jan. 2026
  • The problem is the unhinged reaction to ICE’s presence by leftist radicals who have a lot in common with your average anarchist.
    Chris Roemer, Baltimore Sun, 22 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • When John commands Cal to cut his long hair, Cal rebels by dyeing it platinum and trimming it into a chin-length bob.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Marcos briefly suspended habeas corpus and blamed his sclerotic economy on the agitations of leftist rebels, students, journalists, and preachers.
    Sean Williams, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • Rahman is positioning himself as a bridge between a political aristocracy that dates back to Bangladesh’s liberation struggle and the aspirations of its young revolutionaries.
    Charlie Campbell, Time, 28 Jan. 2026
  • But that's not all − quarters honoring national heroes from the abolitionist, suffragette and civil rights eras have been scrapped and will be replaced by those celebrating the nation's early White pioneers and revolutionaries.
    Kathryn Palmer, USA Today, 27 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Agents sprayed pepper balls and tear gas toward a nearby crowd of agitators as the altercation continued, though the man was ultimately released.
    Greg Wehner , Matt Finn, FOXNews.com, 29 Jan. 2026
  • This is why, apart from rhetoric, the MAGA crowd insists there must be outside money, outside organization, outside agitators here.
    Katherine Packert Burke, Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • However, the National Republican Senatorial Committee has already blasted Peltola as a radical leftist in a new 45-second ad.
    Molly Parks, The Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Rodríguez is a hard-line leftist with deeply anti-American views learned from her father, a Marxist guerrilla commander who died at the hands of Venezuelan security forces.
    Dexter Filkins, New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Israel — home to more Holocaust survivors than any other country — marks its remembrance day, Yom HaShoah, on the anniversary of the April 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, emphasizing the heroism of the Jewish insurgents who resisted the Nazi terror.
    Vanessa Gera, Chicago Tribune, 27 Jan. 2026
  • According to two senior government officials, the Canadian armed forces were drafting insurgent-like tactics mirroring those used by the Taliban to fight back against the US invasion of Afghanistan.
    Joe Wilkins Published Jan 21, Futurism, 21 Jan. 2026

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“Young Turk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/young%20Turk. Accessed 3 Feb. 2026.

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