as in revolutionaries
a person who favors rapid and sweeping changes especially in laws and methods of government
extremists wanted to do away with everything, even though they had no thought-out plan for what to do afterwards
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Recent Examples of extremists
Officials went into more detail about the threat that election officials face from domestic violent extremists.
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Luke Barr, ABC News, 2 Oct. 2024
Domestic violent extremists could also target voting locations, ballot drop boxes, voter registration locations, political rallies, campaign events and political party offices, and could target the homes of public officials.
—Luke Barr, ABC News, 2 Oct. 2024
The extremists today are those who deny climate change, assuming that Lake Powell will refill again soon.
—Zak Podmore, The Denver Post, 30 Sep. 2024
Back then, the idea of draining Lake Powell was fringe, attractive to anti-government extremists and radical environmentalists.
—Zak Podmore, The Denver Post, 30 Sep. 2024
The tree spotted emerging from a pillar at the Taj Mahal is a peepul, a variety of fig considered sacred by Hindus – symbolic, for those pointing the finger of blame for the monument's decline on the growing influence of Hindu extremists.
—The Week Uk, theweek, 25 Sep. 2024
If that happens, there will be a new wave of refugees, a new base for extremists, and most important for the long term, no credible model for Arab democracy in the Middle East.
—Brian Klaas, Foreign Affairs, 31 Jan. 2016
Luke Barr, ABC News, 2 Oct. 2024
Domestic violent extremists could also target voting locations, ballot drop boxes, voter registration locations, political rallies, campaign events and political party offices, and could target the homes of public officials.
—Luke Barr, ABC News, 2 Oct. 2024
The extremists today are those who deny climate change, assuming that Lake Powell will refill again soon.
—Zak Podmore, The Denver Post, 30 Sep. 2024
Back then, the idea of draining Lake Powell was fringe, attractive to anti-government extremists and radical environmentalists.
—Zak Podmore, The Denver Post, 30 Sep. 2024
The tree spotted emerging from a pillar at the Taj Mahal is a peepul, a variety of fig considered sacred by Hindus – symbolic, for those pointing the finger of blame for the monument's decline on the growing influence of Hindu extremists.
—The Week Uk, theweek, 25 Sep. 2024
If that happens, there will be a new wave of refugees, a new base for extremists, and most important for the long term, no credible model for Arab democracy in the Middle East.
—Brian Klaas, Foreign Affairs, 31 Jan. 2016
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“Extremists.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/extremists. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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