firebrand
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So why did it unravel for the Dutch head coach who many Liverpool fans initially regarded as the calm, transitional Bob Paisley figure to predecessor Klopp's firebrand, charismatic Bill Shankly?
From BBC ● May 30, 2026
New York University social psychologist Jonathan Haidt is no firebrand.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026
A Colombia-born businessman, Saab had become close to Venezuela's government in the final years of leftist firebrand Hugo Chavez's 1999-2013 presidency and then managed a vast import network for Maduro's administration.
From Barron's ● May 17, 2026
Realizing he’d be unable to direct his fictionalized childhood remembrance, he entrusted it to his mentee Akin, the firebrand behind modern German classics such as “Head-On” and “In the Fade.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2026
Old buddy introduced him around till he knew every firebrand among the upper-class fellas the State Department wanted him to groom for revolution.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
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