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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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Though Awlaki's extremist preaching would come into sharper focus after 9/11, at the time the paintballing video was recorded he already had connections to al-Qaeda operatives and was shortly to be investigated by the FBI.

From BBC Sep. 7, 2026

Earlier this year, a court labelled the group "extremist", making its supporters subject to prosecution and effectively outlawing any cooperation with it.

From Barron's Sep. 4, 2026

It’s a tragedy when any human life is taken, here or abroad, by a soldier or an extremist.

From Salon Sep. 2, 2026

Authorities believe that the girl was radicalized in the same extremist online networks as Vazquez and Clark and communicated with them using the messaging platform Signal, O’Neill said.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 31, 2026

No one can charge me with being an extremist.

From From Crow-Scaring to Westminster; an Autobiography by George Edwards M.P. O.B.E.

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

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

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

Western governments are watching to see if Sharaa’s Islamist-led government can keep a lid on potential extremists in the country.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 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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