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activism

[ak-tuh-viz-uhm] / ˈæk təˌvɪz əm /


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When activism pushes drugmakers to focus on the near term, the cost may show up not in next quarter’s earnings report, but in the medicines that never get discovered.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 15, 2026

The Black struggle for voting rights perhaps best exemplifies how Black activism was critical to the formation of the Reconstruction Amendments.

From Slate • Apr. 15, 2026

"What's key about Winifred is that her experience with prejudice, both racial and gendered, is that she factored it into her own activism," says Springer.

From BBC • Apr. 14, 2026

Max Moran, a 23-year-old across the Ohio state line in Germantown, Kentucky, who shares activism tips with Sharp and Baker in their Facebook messaging group, said he hasn’t used chatbots much for his research.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

It was in the context of this spirit of activism by Indians, Coloureds, and Africans that Walter Sisulu first broached the idea to a small group of us of a national civil disobedience campaign.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela



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