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extremist

[ik-stree-mist] / ɪkˈstri mɪst /
NOUN
person zealous about a belief
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STRONGEST


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Cdr Flanagan said the police investigation found Shah was being drawn into extremist material and ideologies "when he was only 13 or 14 years old".

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

Experts working for the UN Human Rights Council wrote in April that Mohammed had been receiving death threats and online abuse for years, which were "believed to come from extremist religious militia".

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

Mr. Sorkin attempts to dramatize this discussion via heavy use of charts and repeated invocations of a figure: 64% of those who joined extremist groups on Facebook were directed there by the platform’s own algorithm.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Media reports have also said he had been barred from flying in his home nation over concerns about extremist views.

From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026

In fact, I am, and always have been, an extremist, a purist.

From The Book of Khalid by Ameen Fares Rihani

“It’s not a place of extremists but people were really inflamed,” Sosnoff says, noting that some people were reluctant to speak on camera.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

This came even as three heroic Muslim men gave their lives in May while defending some 240 children at the Islamic Center of San Diego from anti-Muslim extremists.

From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026

She said this was "a hatred we must stand robustly against, and root out from its very foundations", which meant "taking on extremists and bearing down on those who seek to divide our communities".

From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026

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

In addition, more than 52 percent of the shootouts between extremists and police now involve white extremists.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler


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