radical

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It’s as radical an overhaul as the game has seen and there’s no reason they can’t do it over and over.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026

It’s radical to love someone because they’re honest, not in spite of their honesty.

From Salon • Apr. 3, 2026

The new group is less radical and much more reasonable.

From Slate • Apr. 2, 2026

The two localities, home to about 40,000 people, decided to take radical action around 25 years ago after predictions that their communal rubbish dump would be full by 2004.

From Barron's • Mar. 25, 2026

Aristotle offered an alternative theory that was strikingly radical for its time: perhaps females, like males, contribute actual material to the fetus—a form of female semen.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee