revolutionary
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Holmes is the former billionaire CEO of Theranos who pretended she’d built a revolutionary blood testing machine to squeeze investors for a few dollars more.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026
Le Ngoc Mai Uyen was a frequent visitor to the park named after her grandmother, revolutionary fighter Le Thi Rieng, before she realised her relative's body may be buried there.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
Of course “The Social Reckoning” arrives too late to feel revolutionary; it would be late even if it depicted something that happened last week.
From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026
The self-proclaimed revolutionary communist has since sent messages to supporters describing himself as a "prisoner of war".
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
Mom casually refers to her revolutionary soil additive.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
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It has survived French revolutionaries who wanted to use it to cover a wagon and Nazi soldiers who tried to move it to Berlin.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
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
“O Canada” is as soaring as “God Save the King,” while revolutionaries across the world have chanted “La Marseillaise” for centuries.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026
In France, revolutionaries were turning against their own nobles but remained uncertain about what this meant for enslaved Africans on their sugar islands.
From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson
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