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revolutionary

[rev-uh-loo-shuh-ner-ee] / ˌrɛv əˈlu ʃəˌnɛr i /




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“This is really going to be a revolutionary truck,” Musk said in a prerecorded video on Thursday.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026

Robert Briscoe, who was both a celebrated Irish revolutionary and an Orthodox Jew, became lord mayor of Dublin in the 1950s.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

The self-proclaimed revolutionary communist has since sent messages to supporters describing himself as a "prisoner of war".

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

The French aristocrat who had joined the American revolutionary cause visited the U.S. in 1824.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

During the six months prior to the dinner at Jefferson’s quarters, Madison went through a conversion process, or perhaps a reconversion, from the religion of nationalism to the old revolutionary faith of Virginia.

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

He felt the same about his perch at the University of London; it wasn’t Oxford or Cambridge but, as he observed, “even revolutionaries like to be in a suitable tradition.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

"They'd love to humiliate the Castros and get one of the original revolutionaries from 1959 behind bars. But the strategic value of that is questionable."

From BBC ● May 21, 2026

After starring in the Oscar-winning “One Battle After Another” as the daughter of revolutionaries, Chase Infiniti is poised to lead another revolution in “The Testaments.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026

At this year's awards, held on March 15, Paul Thomas Anderson's "One Battle After Another" -- a wild tale of leftist revolutionaries, white supremacists and immigrant detention centers -- was crowned as best picture.

From Barron's ● Mar. 26, 2026

Amar and Christina found them, not among the other revolutionaries near the Hancock building, but in their family apartment in the Pire, above Dauntless headquarters.

From "Allegiant" by Veronica Roth




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