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revolution

[rev-uh-loo-shuhn] / ˌrɛv əˈlu ʃən /




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But even as Lean was establishing its worth, another revolution was taking place outside the halls of academia.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

The trip prompted personal reflections for Poole González, who was born in the U.S. to a mother who departed Cuba with her family a decade after the revolution.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Wigglesworth is the author of “Trillions,” a history of the index-fund revolution, and his new book, “A Fabulous Debt: The Epic Story of How Bonds Built the Modern World,” is out Sept. 29 from Portfolio/Penguin.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

The US is not going to "stifle the growth of something that will be bigger than the industrial revolution," he added.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

The printing revolution is a theme that runs through this book: we will return to it in Chapters 5-8 and 17; and see above, p.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Technological revolutions often build the infrastructure before anyone knows all the applications it will enable.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

"But we're not afraid of revolutions when they are peaceful, well-thought and meant to last."

From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2026

But this one, her sixth, dances us through her evolution and many revolutions, serving up everything from jazz to funk to Chicago house on the dance track “Right Here Right Now.”

From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2026

Surveying his own time, Fiedler concludes that this gothic literary mode still captures most fully what he describes as “an era of universal war, alienation from nature, failed revolutions, genocide, and ideological self-deception.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

He was going to work several revolutions at one time.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez




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