extremist
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My research on how these movements evolve online and intersect with political activists and extremist networks was directly relevant to tracing how COVID-origin claims moved from fringe communities into mainstream political discourse.
From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2026
Though the platform later started engaging, she said it had retained a "permissive environment" for hosting extremist content that was "very easy to find".
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
He cut ties with the extremist group more than a decade ago and has long sought to position himself as a mainstream political leader.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
A district court in the Voronezh region found Lunin guilty of an administrative offence of displaying "extremist" symbols, the court said on its website -- a ruling that typically carries a days-long jail stint.
From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026
He had begun life as an extremist of the school of Robespierre; he owed his first promotion to that side; but he had no real grasp of the new forces that were working in Europe.
From A Short History of the World by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
On Thursday, his name appeared on Russia's online register of "terrorists and extremists" -- a blacklist maintained by Russia's Rosfinmonitoring financial watchdog.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
Austria will formally open a new police station on Wednesday in Adolf Hitler's former house, in the hope of deterring today's ascendant far-right extremists from making the pilgrimage to the Nazi dictator's birthplace.
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
Responding to the letter, Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis called it a "powerful riposte to the hateful extremists who have targeted the Jewish community".
From BBC ● May 9, 2026
“The Department of Justice also knows that these confidential informants helped law enforcement put violent extremists in jail.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026
Adams went to his grave claiming that these laws never enjoyed his support, that their chief sponsors were Federalist extremists in the Congress, and that he had signed them grudgingly and reluctantly.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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