extremist
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Federal prosecutors accused Heidi Beirich of helping to facilitate secret payments to informants from extremist groups.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
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
Syria is seeking economic support to rebuild after years of brutal war that helped rise to the Islamic State extremist group and generated a major refugee crisis.
From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026
This man Osborn, whoever he may be, must be just a fantastic extremist….
From Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Government officials have acknowledged the uptick in attacks by what they say are a small group of extremists.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
After opting against turning it into a historical monument to avoid drawing extremists, an expert commission decided to make it a police station.
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 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
“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
Vocabulary lists containing extremist
"Letter from Birmingham Jail" by Martin Luther King, Jr. (1963)
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President Obama's U.N. Address
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