firebrand
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Even Wall Street Journal editor-at-large Gerard Baker, hardly a left-wing firebrand, quipped that the address was so full of fictions he was beginning to doubt whether the USA men’s hockey team actually won gold.
From Salon • Feb. 25, 2026
"They will not let us become the government or come into power easily," 31-year-old firebrand Rukchanok Srinork told AFP.
From Barron's • Feb. 3, 2026
In a move that foreshadowed Fern’s future as a feminist firebrand of her time, she contracted a lawyer and found a room for her daughters and herself in the Marlboro Hotel in Boston.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 27, 2026
Anwar first made his name as a charismatic firebrand student leader who founded Malaysia's Islamic youth movement, ABIM.
From BBC • Oct. 27, 2025
She was the eldest child of the Reverend Jesse Jackson, the firebrand Baptist preacher and increasingly powerful political leader.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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