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
  • Hydrogen peroxide forms as a byproduct when energetic particles break apart water molecules, leading to the recombination of OH radicals — highly reactive molecules with unpaired electrons.
    Victoria Corless, Space.com, 23 July 2025
  • Bay Area radicals in Oakland and San Francisco are fellow plaintiffs alongside the state.
    Jason Isaac, Oc Register, 4 June 2025
Noun
  • According to the International Committee of the Red Cross, last year was the worst year yet for peace in the country since a 2016 deal was struck between the FARC, Colombia’s largest rebel group, and the Colombian state.
    Ladan Anoushfar, CNN Money, 6 Aug. 2025
  • In 2024, a group of UN experts said that up to 4,000 Rwandan troops were fighting alongside the rebels.
    Pol Ballús, New York Times, 30 July 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • And many revolutionists think that new equipment has changed the patterns of advance and retreat in Ukraine relative to historical experience.
    Stephen Biddle, Foreign Affairs, 10 Aug. 2023
Noun
  • Dad’s grandfather had been a cabinetmaker by day and a socialist revolutionary by night.
    Nancy Walecki, The Atlantic, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Her dancers wore Black berets—a symbol of global Black resistance, from the Panthers in the U.S. to Caribbean revolutionaries like Che Guevara and Fidel Castro.
    Richard Fowler, Forbes.com, 27 July 2025
Noun
  • Though polar opposites, together, Leonard and Bitchy have seen it all; the gruff Bitchy serves as the play’s agitator, pitting him opposite Leonard, the conscience and Greek chorus.
    Duante Beddingfield, Freep.com, 30 July 2025
  • Some were even attacked by white agitators, but they had been taught not to fight back.
    Dwight Lewis, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
Noun
  • Lahav emphasized that stringent measures would need to be taken in Israel's outreach to Iranian insurgent groups to avoid creating outcomes with the potential to be just as unfavorable, or even more unfavorable, to national and regional security.
    Tom O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 July 2025
  • Saturday’s bracket gets going with one-time tourney staple UCLA and insurgent Murray State.
    Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 13 June 2025
Noun
  • The campus crazies demanding safe spaces seem to have polluted the entire culture with fear and anxiety.
    Brian T. Allen, National Review, 2 May 2020
  • Doyle’s message to stir-crazy, nature-seeking folks: Feel free to hike and enjoy the great outdoors.
    Ron Kroichick, SFChronicle.com, 25 Apr. 2020

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“Young Turk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/young%20Turk. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.

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