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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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The "Male State", an extremist misogynistic group named in this week's hoax bomb threats to Italian airports, has denied any link to the false warnings causing flight disruption across Europe.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

The online investigation team at Bellingcat, who studied the group back in 2022, called it then a "vocal and vile online booster" of the Russian invasion, with a clear extremist far-right ideology.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

French authorities have taken a tougher stance against extremist groups on both the left and the right in recent years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

Al Arabiya, citing an informed source, also reported that Omani authorities had determined the co-pilot held extremist views.

From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026

The pacificator, however, had to face two groups of irreconcilables, the Bishop of Toronto with his extremist following, and the secularizing party resolute to have done with any form of subsidy to religion.

From British Supremacy & Canadian Self-Government, 1839-1854 by J. L. (John Lyle) Morison

He was flagged as a security threat in a secret French government database of people deemed to be extremists.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

But the underlying sentiment is just as base as that of the less polished extremists.

From Slate ● Nov. 3, 2026

“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

The BBC can reveal that those staff objected to a line in the report concluding that he was "an unlikely candidate for clandestine involvement with Islamist extremists".

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 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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