revolutionary
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It's what some ministers call "the politics of trying" – putting time and effort into ideas that you don't pretend are revolutionary, but give direction, and a sense of sympathy to the public.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026
Rather than a revolutionary AI company, the company has figured out how to use the technology to sell more products.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026
“This could fill an enormous gap in our knowledge of protein structures that can’t be crystallized or are too small for today’s cryo-EM. And it will be revolutionary for cryo-ET.”
From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026
Railroads, which were so revolutionary that multiple routes were built between cities in the 19th century, are the classic example.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
What one historian has called “the perishability of revolutionary time” meant that the political will to act was also racing against the clock.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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Skopje is a city of statues, two or three hundred of them apparently, great big things in squares and in fountains commemorating tsars and dames, emperors and warriors, royalty and revolutionaries.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
But traditionally such groups prompt indignation among revolutionaries who insist they will not be forced out by their critics in Miami.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
All were revolutionaries, changing the character of the world they inhabited and personifying the inventiveness at the heart of the American character itself.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026
Ramiro Valdés was one of the last surviving revolutionaries who took power with the Castro brothers in 1959.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
All except two, a pair of miscreants—or revolutionaries, depending on your view—hiding out on chromosome number 5.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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