revolutionary
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Last week’s local elections came as close as the phlegmatic Brits come to delivering a revolutionary message.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 2026
Xi said at the time that the army had "undergone revolutionary tempering in the fight against corruption".
From BBC • May 7, 2026
"That was about respecting your place in society, but in the revolutionary 1640s and 1650s, hat-honor became a real gesture of defiance in the political sphere."
From Science Daily • May 7, 2026
My favorite tribute is the surprisingly moving episode of “The Boondocks” called “Riley Wuz Here,” which presents its version of him as an undercover revolutionary called the Art Teacher.
From Salon • May 2, 2026
In addition to seeming eternal, ubiquitous, protean, and endlessly quotable, Franklin had the most sophisticated sense of timing among all the prominent statesmen of the revolutionary era.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
Vocabulary lists containing revolutionary
"On the Vietnam War, 1967," Vocabulary from the speech
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John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, January 20, 1961
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One Crazy Summer
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