as in revolutionaries
a person who favors rapid and sweeping changes especially in laws and methods of government
radicals staged large, violent protests in the hopes of toppling the government
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Recent Examples of radicals
Hasina's ouster has left both political as well as security vacuums, giving more space to religious radicals.
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Michael Kugelman, NPR, 21 Dec. 2024
Obama ended up funding and arming the Syrian opposition so feebly it was slaughtered and – when its extremists joined up with radicals from Iraq’s long-running insurgency against the US occupation – metastasized into ISIS.
—Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 7 Dec. 2024
In fact, the group’s radicals are likely to be emboldened.
—Saeid Golkar, Foreign Affairs, 11 Oct. 2024
The Black Panther Party in the late 1960s organized Puerto Rican radicals and Confederate flag-waving white Southerner transplants to help tackle poverty and discrimination in Chicago — an effort that drew attention from the FBI.
—Russell Contreras, Axios, 1 Oct. 2024
Unlike many sixties radicals, Amiri never found a comfortable place in the cultural mainstream.
—Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
Michael Kugelman, NPR, 21 Dec. 2024
Obama ended up funding and arming the Syrian opposition so feebly it was slaughtered and – when its extremists joined up with radicals from Iraq’s long-running insurgency against the US occupation – metastasized into ISIS.
—Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 7 Dec. 2024
In fact, the group’s radicals are likely to be emboldened.
—Saeid Golkar, Foreign Affairs, 11 Oct. 2024
The Black Panther Party in the late 1960s organized Puerto Rican radicals and Confederate flag-waving white Southerner transplants to help tackle poverty and discrimination in Chicago — an effort that drew attention from the FBI.
—Russell Contreras, Axios, 1 Oct. 2024
Unlike many sixties radicals, Amiri never found a comfortable place in the cultural mainstream.
—Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
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“Radicals.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/radicals. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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