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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for young Turk
Noun
  • On the one side, bell bottoms became the signature look of 1970s radicals.
    Stephen Mihm, Twin Cities, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Some of these technologies generate chemicals such as ozone, formaldehyde and hydroxyl radicals to kill microbes – substances that can potentially harm people if inhaled.
    Amiran Baduashvili, The Conversation, 20 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Adapted from Chinese folklore, the film follows a boy named Ne Zha (Crystal Lee) who is born with demon-like powers and rebels against his hawk-eyed, human parents Lady Yin and Li Jing (Vincent Rodriguez III).
    Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Since January, thousands were killed and hundreds of thousands were displaced in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in the fighting between M23 rebels and the Congolese army.
    Jean Kaseya, Time, 20 Aug. 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
  • Mao Zedong is said to have suggested that anyone who couldn’t tolerate chiles couldn’t be a revolutionary; all over the world, and for centuries, spiciness has been something to conquer, and chiles have symbolized strength, bravery, national pride, and virility.
    Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Others, the rare ones, decide to become prophets and revolutionaries.
    F. Willis Johnson, Twin Cities, 10 July 2025
Noun
  • Because, as well as insisting on the superiority of white protestant morality and culture, the Klan viewed labor unions as un-American foreign ideologies tied to socialism and Bolshevism – all promoted by Jewish and Catholic agitators.
    Jody Mamone, Hartford Courant, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Use 2 tablespoons in a standard top-load washer with a center agitator.
    Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 8 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • But as the threat of insurgents has receded abroad, the Trump administration has brought these tactics home.
    Time, Time, 8 Aug. 2025
  • On the one hand, there is the prospect of insurgents who can field swarms of armed drones.
    Dexter Filkins, New Yorker, 14 July 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 3 Sep. 2025.

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