young Turk

noun

Definition of young Turknext
as in extremist

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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
  1. radical
  2. rebel
  3. revolutionist
  4. revolutionary
  5. agitator
  6. insurgent
Noun
  • In off-beat, often hilarious footage shared at CinemaCon by DiCaprio and his co-stars Regina Hall and Teyana Taylor, DiCaprio’s character struggles to remember the password that will bring a group of radicals to his assistance.
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 2 Apr. 2025
  • Perrin can’t go back to his hometown without running afoul of the radicals who’ve already tortured him once before, back in season one.
    — Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2025
Definition of radical
Noun
  • The rebels have loosely defined what constitutes an Israeli ship, meaning many vessels could be targeted.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 2 Apr. 2025
  • Parnell, the Pentagon spokesperson, said the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman, which has been carrying out strikes on Houthi rebels in Yemen, will stay in the region through this month, though its deployment there was scheduled to have ended at the end of March.
    — Haley Britzky, CNN Money, 2 Apr. 2025
Definition of rebel
Noun
  • 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
  • As the head of China’s Nationalist government, Chiang and his party were trying to establish control in a nation divided among revolutionists, nationalists, Indigenous warlords, and a developing communist army and government.
    — Susan Tate Ankeny, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Apr. 2024
Definition of revolutionist
Noun
  • One Battle After Another centers on a group of former revolutionaries who reconnect to help their member Bob Ferguson (DiCaprio) find his daughter.
    — Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 27 Mar. 2025
  • The unlikely revolutionaries The lyricist is named Ayman al-Masri, 52.
    — Jawad Rizkallah, NPR, 5 Mar. 2025
Definition of revolutionary
Noun
  • President Trump is committed to holding these radical agitators accountable and deporting non-citizens who are conducting this behavior.
    — Kaity Kline, NPR, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Republicans have blamed many of those confrontations on Democratic activists and agitators.
    — Julia Manchester, The Hill, 14 Mar. 2025
Definition of agitator
Noun
  • Warfare plots, in real time, a surveillance mission in Ramadi gone awry when nearby Al Qaeda insurgents detonate a series of IEDs outside a housing building which the team has taken over.
    — Gregory Nussen, Deadline, 28 Mar. 2025
  • The sniper gun is peering through an eight-inch-wide hole blasted into the wall, and the insurgents, having figured out that the Americans are in there, toss a grenade through the hole.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 28 Mar. 2025
Definition of insurgent

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“Young Turk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/young%20Turk. Accessed 9 Apr. 2025.

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