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revolution

[rev-uh-loo-shuhn] / ˌrɛv əˈlu ʃən /




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Problems at the company that ushered in Hollywood’s streaming revolution have been building for a year as it has struggled to come up with hits on the level of “Stranger Things” or “Squid Game.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

Ireland will showcase the role it bids to play in the technological revolution when it hosts an international AI summit in the capital Dublin on Wednesday.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

Sweeney said ramping up the use of AI is Epic's "modest aim to survive the AI revolution" and end up "making better code and content faster".

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

The brown dwarf completes a full revolution around its host star in just 87 minutes.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026

There would be many years of famine, unrest, revolution, and other difficulties yet to come.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

It is paying interest to this day: “It is astonishing to think of the wars, revolutions, religious revolt, pandemics and other disasters this bond has survived,” the author marvels.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 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

But this one, her sixth, dances us through her evolution and many revolutions, serving up everything from jazz to funk to Chicago house on the dance track “Right Here Right Now.”

From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2026

But we need to acknowledge the existence of extended, patchy revolutions if we want to turn aside from politics and understand large-scale economic, social, intellectual and technological change.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton


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