young Turks

plural of young Turk

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for young Turks
Noun
  • The actor got his start on Family Ties, an '80s sitcom about the Keaton family, whose matriarch and patriarch were once 1960s radicals now attempting to raise their Reagan-era children in suburbia.
    Rebecca Aizin, PEOPLE, 9 June 2026
  • Increasingly, however, that tent seems to have room for radicals and ideological extremists while pushing out Democrats who think independently.
    Doug Friednash, Denver Post, 3 June 2026
Noun
  • The security situation in Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso has worsened recently, analysts say, with a record number of attacks by Islamic extremists.
    ABC News, ABC News, 10 June 2026
  • Increasingly, however, that tent seems to have room for radicals and ideological extremists while pushing out Democrats who think independently.
    Doug Friednash, Denver Post, 3 June 2026
Noun
  • Cuba’s nationalization wave began soon after Fidel Castro’s rebels took control of the island in 1959.
    Max Saltman, CNN Money, 4 June 2026
  • Gangs, rebels, and soldiers started massacring elephants, sometimes from military helicopters.
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 3 June 2026
Noun
  • After Daft Punk’s rise from underground dance music heroes to chart-topping pop insurgents, Bangalter followed different muses in different directions.
    Andy Battaglia, ARTnews.com, 8 June 2026
  • That legacy includes crushing both hyperinflation and the Maoist insurgents of the Shining Path, who bathed Peru in blood in the 1980s and 1990s.
    Simeon Tegel, NPR, 6 June 2026
Noun
  • Not helping was Parliament’s passage of the Tea Act in 1773, to which revolutionaries responded by dumping tea into Boston Harbor.
    Laurie Kellman, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2026
  • Not helping was Parliament's passage of the Tea Act in 1773, to which revolutionaries responded by dumping tea into Boston Harbor.
    ABC News, ABC News, 3 June 2026
Noun
  • In January, a DHS official sent a memo to some federal immigration agents temporarily assigned to Minneapolis instructing them to collect personal information about protesters and agitators, including license plates, identifications and images, according to CNN reporting.
    Jude Joffe-Block, NPR, 10 June 2026
  • Shocking video captured the moments anti-ICE agitators were arrested outside Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey, Friday, during riotous confrontations.
    Alexandra Koch, FOXNews.com, 6 June 2026
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“Young Turks.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/young%20Turks. Accessed 12 Jun. 2026.

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