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revolutionary

[rev-uh-loo-shuh-ner-ee] / ˌrɛv əˈlu ʃəˌnɛr i /




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“This could fill an enormous gap in our knowledge of protein structures that can’t be crystallized or are too small for today’s cryo-EM. And it will be revolutionary for cryo-ET.”

From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026

Rather than a revolutionary AI company, the company has figured out how to use the technology to sell more products.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026

The truly revolutionary part of the Rays’ approach was how they used those changeups.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

Holmes is the former billionaire CEO of Theranos who pretended she’d built a revolutionary blood testing machine to squeeze investors for a few dollars more.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

Washington was the core of gravity that prevented the American Revolution from flying off into random orbits, the stable center around which the revolutionary energies formed.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

But traditionally such groups prompt indignation among revolutionaries who insist they will not be forced out by their critics in Miami.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

“O Canada” is as soaring as “God Save the King,” while revolutionaries across the world have chanted “La Marseillaise” for centuries.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026

Most of the bearded revolutionaries who entered Havana with Valdés in 1959 have died or withdrawn from public life.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026

"They'd love to humiliate the Castros and get one of the original revolutionaries from 1959 behind bars. But the strategic value of that is questionable."

From BBC ● May 21, 2026

In France, revolutionaries were turning against their own nobles but remained uncertain about what this meant for enslaved Africans on their sugar islands.

From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson


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