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Recent Examples of young Turk
And then some young Turk comes along who's not in a routine and can knock you right off your perch.
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Robert B. Tucker, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
Robert B. Tucker, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for young Turk
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My opponent also aligns herself with political radicals who view the justice system as a means to help and serve criminals, as opposed to victims of crime and our community.Sharon Coolidge, The Enquirer, 27 Oct. 2024
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Selenium can prevent oxidative damage in the body, fight off radicals, and improve cell function.14 Selenium deficiencies have been linked to thyroid problems, decreased immune system function, hormonal imbalance, mood disorders, and heart disease. 7.Lana Barhum, Verywell Health, 31 Oct. 2024
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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
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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
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And many revolutionists think that new equipment has changed the patterns of advance and retreat in Ukraine relative to historical experience.Stephen Biddle, Foreign Affairs, 10 Aug. 2023
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As the head of China’s Nationalist government, Chiang and his party were trying to establish control in a nation divided among revolutionists, nationalists, Indigenous warlords, and a developing communist army and government.Susan Tate Ankeny, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Apr. 2024
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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
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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
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Make sure they're evenly spaced around the center agitator.Rabekah Henderson, Southern Living, 1 Nov. 2024
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For three decades, Nitschke has been an agitator in the right-to-die debate.Morgan Meaker, WIRED, 15 Oct. 2024
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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
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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
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“Young Turk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/young%20Turk. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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