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revolution

[rev-uh-loo-shuhn] / ˌrɛv əˈlu ʃən /




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That’s a bad place to be in the AI revolution.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 18, 2026

It’s the sort of bad dream terrifying plenty of CEOs these days as they try to navigate the revolution.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 18, 2026

"We'll adapt to this technological revolution just as we have to the previous ones."

From Barron's Jul. 15, 2026

The biggest gift of the streaming revolution is subtitles.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 15, 2026

The real revolution in astronomy came with Tycho Brahe’s nova, with the abandonment of belief in the crystalline spheres, and with the invention of the telescope.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Despite AI companies’ protests, it appears that AI’s blueprints are about as hard to contain as those from our previous industrial revolutions.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

“There were demonstrations in the streets, anti-Vietnam War demonstrations, drug revolutions, sex revolutions, riots, race riots. So we thought, what a good time to go out and do Black and white comedy.”

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 18, 2026

"But we're not afraid of revolutions when they are peaceful, well-thought and meant to last."

From BBC Jun. 9, 2026

Wars, diseases, revolutions, depressions, bankruptcies, financial crises and natural disasters all swept through history and wiped out wealth.

From The Wall Street Journal May 19, 2026

The tumult of 1848—the bloody populist revolutions that swept fiercely through France, Denmark, Germany, and Austria and overturned social, political, and religious orders—largely passed him by, like distant thunder.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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