YOUNG TURK Synonyms: 30 Similar and Opposite Words

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 The Armenian genocide did not occur at a time when the Ottoman Empire fully ruled the region, but during a period when Young Turk nationalists were in the process of superseding the empire. — Robert D. Kaplan, Foreign Affairs, 8 Aug. 2023

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Kerr is a longtime Democrat whose father Malcolm was assassinated by religious extremists in 1984 while the elder Kerr served as the president of the American University of Beirut in Lebanon.

— Liam Russell, Sacbee.com, 13 Nov. 2026
Democratic leaders must now isolate these extremists, minimize their influence, and prevent their radical agenda from defining the future of the Democratic Party.

— Jamie Metzl, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Nov. 2026

Definition of extremist

Noun

The light generates highly reactive chlorine radicals that activate carbon atoms along the polymer chains without destroying them.

— Muskan Bhatia, Interesting Engineering, 5 Nov. 2026
Candidates backed by the Democratic Socialists of America, along with the left wing organization’s leaders, have been willing to engage with its anchors even as Fox News opinion hosts paint them as dangerous radicals.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of radical

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The rebel group, in turn, continues to target Saudi infrastructure, including the King Khalid International Airport in the capital Riyadh, and oil facilities.

— Clarissa Ward, CNN Money, 12 Nov. 2026
The District 13 rebels and the Capitol engage in a series of attacks, counterattacks, and clandestine missions.

— Sophia Zhang, Encyclopedia Britannica, 12 Nov. 2026

Definition of rebel

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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
Many revolutionists see heavy tank casualties in Ukraine as the key indicator for the tank’s looming obsolescence in the face of newly lethal precision antitank weapons.

— Stephen Biddle, Foreign Affairs, 10 Aug. 2023

Definition of revolutionist

Noun

We are so wired for vengeance, so trained to retaliate, mused Vonnegut, Jesus must be classed among the revolutionaries.

— Dominic Erdozain, Time, 12 Nov. 2026
Mao Zedong was a revolutionary who led the Communist Party during its crucial early days, winning a civil war against the ruling Nationalist Party in China, and then founding the modern-day People’s Republic of China.

— ABC News, ABC News, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of revolutionary

Noun

Tusk and his government have characterized their conservative opposition as buoyed by foreign agitators, particularly Russian interference.

— Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 4 Nov. 2026
Coolly, Violet responds that to avoid alarming the public, a few agitators have beenneutralized—now there’s a sticky euphemism—and their deaths passed off as revenge killings among drug traffickers.

— J. B. MacKinnon, Harpers Magazine, 27 Oct. 2026

Definition of agitator

Noun

From Georgia, South Carolina and Texas in the South to Ohio, Kansas and Iowa in the Midwest, insurgent Democrats not only won but did so with significant margins -- with notable shifts in key demographic groups and voting blocs.

— Elizabeth Schreier, ABC News, 4 Nov. 2026
Kiros' primary win was part of a wave of leftwing insurgent victories in the spring and summer that kindled the Democratic Party's fight over the direction of the party.

— CBS News, CBS News, 4 Nov. 2026

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