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revolutionist

[rev-uh-loo-shuh-nist] / ˌrɛv əˈlu ʃə nɪst /




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Justifying the strategy to an Oregon newspaper, McAfee said in 2005, “I am a revolutionist in this, and I won’t overlook any loophole that will get the milk out there.”

From Salon Jun. 22, 2026

US President Thomas Jefferson, revolutionist Francis Lewis and Griffith Jenkin Griffith, "one of the true pioneers of Los Angeles", are also given an honourable mention by Rhys thanks to their Welsh ancestry.

From BBC Feb. 26, 2026

He then established the Newark Community Union Project and, with Robert Machover, filmed “Troublemakers,” a documentary film about civic action in Newark that some critics described as revolutionist.

From New York Times Jan. 12, 2023

Here, I’m out there being a revolutionist for everybody else.

From The Guardian Jun. 23, 2019

They were among the original patentees and first founders of the colony; they were church reformers, but neither of them a church revolutionist.

From The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution by Stark, James H.

Soon after independence was won, the founding fathers began conspiring against their fellow revolutionists among the hoi polloi.

From Salon Oct. 17, 2020

Around and about Soho at the time could be found dissidents and revolutionists from half the countries of Europe — Louis Blanc, Karl Marx, Giuseppe Mazzini, Lajos Kossuth and Alexander Herzen.

From New York Times Mar. 30, 2018

Who ever heard of angry revolutionists swinging their bare feet together with their oppressor in lily-pad park pools, with gospels and guitars and ‘I Have A Dream’ speeches?

From Washington Post Jan. 14, 2018

The TNC refuses the allegations aiming to associate al-Qaeda with the revolutionists in #Libya.

From New York Times Apr. 1, 2011

They were true revolutionists, not afraid of death.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey




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