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radical

[rad-i-kuhl] / ˈræd ɪ kəl /




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He wrote a poem called “Betancourt,” named after a young radical there.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

One ambitious report published by the think tank floated the radical idea of curbing the credit-card swipe fees enforced at grocery stores.

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026

Despite these portents, the young man was no radical.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Polls show that many Ukrainians are feeling the same way, even if not everyone has yet made such a radical decision.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

Her immediate, reeling perception was of a radical, Picasso-like perspective in which tears, rimmed and bloated eyes, wet lips and raw, unblown nose blended in a crimson moistness of grief.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

Mr. Levin paints the pampered youngster as a “stubbornly self-centered” boy who kept “studiously aloof” from the antislavery activism that young Harvard radicals embraced in the late 1850s—and that Shaw was all but born to.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

Disraeli’s personality and wit contrast favorably with the manner of today’s bland technocrats who combine the temper of Victorian radicals with the tone of Georgian political managers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026

He insists that his focus is “the war inside Islam” between radicals and Western-aligned Muslim leaders.

From Salon ● Apr. 22, 2026

No one would accuse them of being radicals.

From Slate ● Mar. 25, 2026

Students gathered at lunchtime in front of Low Library at Columbia or on Sproul Plaza at Berkeley to hear student radicals claim their union with ‘the people.’

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez


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