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revolutionary

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




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During part of their discussion, they explored what made Blume’s writing so revolutionary for young readers and how her own surprisingly frank upbringing gave her the freedom to go there.

From Slate • Apr. 18, 2026

Finding a revolutionary artist during cocktail hour at the opening gala of Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s new David Geffen Galleries was like shooting fish in a barrel.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026

Citadelle Laferrière, also known as Citadelle Henry, was built by revolutionary Henri Christophe shortly after Haiti gained independence from France.

From BBC • Apr. 12, 2026

Instead, Kim Il Sung supplemented and eventually replaced Marxism-Leninism with the Chuch’e Ideology, a philosophy that the Great Leader, as Kim Il Sung was known, is said to have begun developing as a 14-year-old revolutionary.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026

I fall asleep thinking how different this revolutionary song is from Mamá’s Spanish song about the girl trapped in a tower at sea.

From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar




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