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revolution

[rev-uh-loo-shuhn] / ˌrɛv əˈlu ʃən /




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This is a risky step that will probably determine whether a business model exists for Anthropic's vision of the AI revolution.

From Barron's Aug. 26, 2026

“The revolution is similar to building the U.S. highway system,” he said.

From MarketWatch Aug. 25, 2026

Meanwhile, a manufacturing revolution that most of Washington has never heard of is under way in China.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 24, 2026

What is fuelling this spectacle is another, less visible revolution happening inside factories and classrooms.

From BBC Aug. 24, 2026

According to Adams, the Revolution succeeded because of its ties to the past, which meant that, in the Jeffersonian sense, it was not really a revolution at all.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

Canada and Puerto Rico, recently called humanoid robots, AI and mass automation “one of the most profound technological revolutions in our lifetimes.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 15, 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

"Relative rotational velocity is 0.05 revolutions per second."

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir




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