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revolutionist

[rev-uh-loo-shuh-nist] / ˌrɛv əˈlu ʃə nɪst /




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Justifying the strategy to an Oregon newspaper, McAfee said in 2005, “I am a revolutionist in this, and I won’t overlook any loophole that will get the milk out there.”

From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026

US President Thomas Jefferson, revolutionist Francis Lewis and Griffith Jenkin Griffith, "one of the true pioneers of Los Angeles", are also given an honourable mention by Rhys thanks to their Welsh ancestry.

From BBC ● Feb. 26, 2026

He then established the Newark Community Union Project and, with Robert Machover, filmed “Troublemakers,” a documentary film about civic action in Newark that some critics described as revolutionist.

From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2023

Here, I’m out there being a revolutionist for everybody else.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 23, 2019

The arrest having been ordered from St. Petersburg, the implication was that the presence of the revolutionist in town had escaped the attention of the local authorities.

From The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia by Abraham Cahan

Soon after independence was won, the founding fathers began conspiring against their fellow revolutionists among the hoi polloi.

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2020

Around and about Soho at the time could be found dissidents and revolutionists from half the countries of Europe — Louis Blanc, Karl Marx, Giuseppe Mazzini, Lajos Kossuth and Alexander Herzen.

From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2018

“I observed that circus. Who ever heard of angry revolutionists all harmonizing ‘We Shall Overcome.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 14, 2018

The TNC refuses the allegations aiming to associate al-Qaeda with the revolutionists in #Libya.

From New York Times ● Apr. 1, 2011

I was literally overwhelmed when, in reading the works of Russian revolutionists, I came across descriptions of the “holiday energies of the masses,” “the locomotives of history,” “the conditions prerequisite for revolution,” and so Forth.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright


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