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extremist

[ik-stree-mist] / ɪkˈstri mɪst /
NOUN
person zealous about a belief
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STRONGEST


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Social media has accelerated the process, allowing extremist narratives to spread quickly and widely.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 15, 2026

They had no apparent links to international terrorist networks — until Malik pledged allegiance to the leader of the extremist group Islamic State on Facebook shortly before the attack.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2026

The film traces how suspicion fell in particular on several members of the Jewish Defense League, a group founded by extremist rabbi Meir Kahane before his own assassination in 1990.

From Barron's • Feb. 21, 2026

He had came to the attention of the authorities when he used 10 Facebook accounts, none of which were in his own name, to spread a torrent of Islamic extremist views.

From BBC • Feb. 13, 2026

It has been thought by many that he was an extremist, but how many of us there are who would gladly take his claim to immortality.

From Rambles with John Burroughs by Loach, Robert John de




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