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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
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TikTok, Bluesky, Substack, the gaming platform Discord and other new players, big and small, can all learn from past policies for keeping extremists off the Internet—and return to those content moderation roots.—
Steven Stalinsky,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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High-profile extremists of the time such as Richard Butler, Robert Mathews and David Lane supported the plan.—
Paul J. Becker,
The Conversation,
5 Sep. 2025
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Soon, Joan ends up on the run with young radicals.—
Marta Balaga,
Variety,
6 Sep. 2025
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Lightning also sparks hydroxyl radicals, which help cleanse the air by breaking down methane and other gases.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
29 Aug. 2025
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But in a region being fought over by a patchwork of anti-junta rebel groups, the military and pro-military militia – and given the widespread distrust of the Rohingya – information on where exactly his family are, or what will become of them, has not been forthcoming.—
Esha Mitra,
CNN Money,
14 Sep. 2025
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By the finale, the galactic chessboard is crowded with players—emperors, rebels, prophets, impostors—but as Hari Seldon (Jared Harris) warned in the very first episode, the center cannot hold.—
JP Mangalindan,
Time,
12 Sep. 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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As the head of China’s Nationalist government, Chiang and his party were trying to establish control in a nation divided among revolutionists, nationalists, Indigenous warlords, and a developing communist army and government.—
Susan Tate Ankeny,
Smithsonian Magazine,
23 Apr. 2024
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Further east, the Russian revolutionaries of 1917 adopted a utopian faith in material progress and science.—
Sonja Fritzsche,
The Conversation,
9 Sep. 2025
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The movie follows DiCaprio as a former political revolutionary named Bob Ferguson who goes on the run when a military leader named Steven Lockjaw (Penn) renews his search for Ferguson and his family.—
Tommy McArdle,
PEOPLE,
9 Sep. 2025
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That might be an agitator for some players.—
Parker Gabriel,
Denver Post,
22 Aug. 2025
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To those worried about an unchecked secularism, Dobson was a powerful agitator for his version of moral certitude and fundamentalist faith.—
Philip Elliott,
Time,
21 Aug. 2025
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Prosecutors said the former president sought to illegally retain power after losing the 2022 election to Lula, a veteran leftist who returned to the presidency after previously serving two terms.—
Gabe Whisnant,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Sep. 2025
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Advertisement In Chile, another leftist, President Gabriel Boric, has endured broad criticism over his government’s inability to address the country’s rising murder rate.—
Christopher Sabatini,
Time,
30 Aug. 2025
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Although some analysts have suggested Starmer may quietly be pleased with the resignation of his main rival and potential successor, the toppling of Rayner caps off what has been a dreadful summer for Labour, in which the party has lost more ground in the polls to the insurgent Reform UK.—
Max Foster,
CNN Money,
5 Sep. 2025
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This might enable a mission which, for example, a Viper is located covertly next to a safe house known to be used by insurgents.—
David Hambling,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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“Young Turk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/young%20Turk. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.
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