revolutionary
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City Hall’s revolutionary idea was that cops should prevent crime, not solve it after it happened.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026
Xi said at the time that the army had "undergone revolutionary tempering in the fight against corruption".
From BBC • May 7, 2026
"That was about respecting your place in society, but in the revolutionary 1640s and 1650s, hat-honor became a real gesture of defiance in the political sphere."
From Science Daily • May 7, 2026
My favorite tribute is the surprisingly moving episode of “The Boondocks” called “Riley Wuz Here,” which presents its version of him as an undercover revolutionary called the Art Teacher.
From Salon • May 2, 2026
In effect, the fading revolutionary ideology and the growing racial demography were converging to close off the political options.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
Vocabulary lists containing revolutionary
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John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, January 20, 1961
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One Crazy Summer
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