young Turks

plural of young Turk

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Noun
  • Soon, Joan ends up on the run with young radicals.
    Marta Balaga, Variety, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Lightning also sparks hydroxyl radicals, which help cleanse the air by breaking down methane and other gases.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 29 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • North was convicted in 1989 on three felony charges for helping to arrange the illicit sale of weapons to Iran and divert the proceeds to fund a secret war against anti-communist Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
    Josh Meyer, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
  • North was part of the twin schemes to sell weapons to Iran and then use proceeds to fund anti-communist rebels, known as the Contras, in Nicaragua.
    CNN.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • The state Republicans have routinely witnessed battles between far-right insurgents who in recent years have complained the party isn’t Trumpy enough and the financial institutional wing that has long been the GOP establishment and funded the party for decades.
    Rick Pearson, Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Further east, the Russian revolutionaries of 1917 adopted a utopian faith in material progress and science.
    Sonja Fritzsche, The Conversation, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The film was One Battle After Another, Anderson’s high-octane adaptation of Vineland, Thomas Pynchon’s anarchic 1990 novel about a crew of former leftist revolutionaries — the French 75 — living in a slightly more dystopian version of present-day America.
    Seija Rankin, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The Sweet family defended themselves by firing shots and killing one of the agitators, which led to a murder trial.
    Dana Afana, Freep.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Pastor John Hagee, the influential Founder and Chairman of Christians United for Israel (CUFI), said fringe online agitators and politicians are motivated by two distinct impulses in their attacks on Israel.
    Amelie Botbol, FOXNews.com, 10 Aug. 2025
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“Young Turks.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/young%20Turks. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.

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