revolutionizer

noun

Definition of revolutionizernext
as in revolter

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for revolutionizer
  1. rebel
  2. insurgent
  3. mutineer
  4. revolutionary
  5. red
Noun
  • The rebels have threatened new attacks in response to Israel’s ground invasion of Lebanon and its killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.
    Jon Gambrell, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2024
  • The Israel-Hamas war has intensified other conflicts in the Middle East, including attacks on international shipping lanes by Yemen’s Houthi rebels and between Israel and the militant group Hezbollah.
    Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 14 Oct. 2024
Definition of rebel
Noun
  • Operating in loose cooperation with Lebanese insurgents, these militias wreaked havoc on Israeli forces and their collaborators.
    Sarah E. Parkinson, Foreign Affairs, 11 Nov. 2024
  • His ascension was part of a wave of insurgent, anti-establishment candidates who sought to push the Republican Party further to the right.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
Definition of insurgent
Noun
  • The two who came closest to challenging him—the opposition leader Alexei Navalny and the mutineer Yevgeny Prigozhin—are now dead.
    Peter Schroeder, Foreign Affairs, 3 Sep. 2024
  • While Musk was on his honeymoon, Botha and other mutineers met with PayPal’s lead investors to make their case.
    Michal Lev-Ram, Fortune, 25 July 2024
Definition of mutineer
Noun
  • In the beginning after Fidel took power, Cubans fled the country thinking their exile would be a temporary one, that surely the actions of a few hundred revolutionaries wouldn’t stand and the revolution would fall.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 2 Nov. 2024
  • On that day in 1868, Cuban revolutionary Carlos Manuel de Céspedes freed his family’s enslaved laborers and announced the beginning of an uprising against Spanish rule.
    Tracy Scott Forson, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Oct. 2024
Definition of revolutionary
Noun
  • As for the complimentary wine, choose between the red, a Nero d’Avola from Sicily, or a white, an Italian Sauvignon from Lodi, Calif.
    Brittany Anas, The Denver Post, 12 Nov. 2024
  • In the first couple of hours Tuesday night after polls close, there may be a lot of red showing up on the map for Trump and other Republicans, but that may be a function of population density.
    Graham Kates, CBS News, 5 Nov. 2024
Definition of red
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