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as in radicals
a person who favors rapid and sweeping changes especially in laws and methods of government
after the collapse of the Russian monarchy, the moderate socialists briefly governed until being overthrown by the Bolshevik revolutionaries
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as in rebels
a person who rises up against authority
at first the government was not worried about this small band of unarmed revolutionaries
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Recent Examples of revolutionaries
Further east, the Russian revolutionaries of 1917 adopted a utopian faith in material progress and science.
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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
Such was the importance placed on the tree for mobilizing resistance that in 1775, it was cut down by British soldiers to demoralize the revolutionaries.
—Ellen Walker, JSTOR Daily, 3 Sep. 2025
Anderson could have done more to dig into the bizarre kaleidoscope of Iranian revolutionaries in the 1960s and ’70s, showing us why the best and brightest of a rapidly advancing society would line up behind an obscurantist like Khomeini.
—Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 5 Aug. 2025
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
Such was the importance placed on the tree for mobilizing resistance that in 1775, it was cut down by British soldiers to demoralize the revolutionaries.
—Ellen Walker, JSTOR Daily, 3 Sep. 2025
Anderson could have done more to dig into the bizarre kaleidoscope of Iranian revolutionaries in the 1960s and ’70s, showing us why the best and brightest of a rapidly advancing society would line up behind an obscurantist like Khomeini.
—Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 5 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for revolutionaries
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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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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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The proceeds from the arms sales were then used to fund right-wing, anti-communist rebels, known as the Contras, in Nicaragua.—
Meredith Kile,
PEOPLE,
11 Sep. 2025
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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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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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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
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Throughout the late nineteenth century and much of the twentieth, Jewish socialists, liberals, anarchists, and Zionists all saw their respective political programs as offering a remedy for anti-Semitism.—
Daniel May,
Harpers Magazine,
20 Aug. 2025
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As political scientist Krzysztof Wasilewski writes, in the 1880s, tarring immigrants as anarchists became a convenient way for American media to smear labor organizing.—
Livia Gershon,
JSTOR Daily,
9 Aug. 2024
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“Revolutionaries.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/revolutionaries. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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