revolutionary

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To him, presenting “Fiddler on the Roof” in Yiddish is revolutionary, as is “John Proctor Is the Villain’s” dissection of a classic through a feminist lens.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2026

Thanks to revolutionary new treatments for my illness, many of which have been developed only in the time since I was diagnosed, that was more than 20 years ago.

From Slate • Mar. 29, 2026

Lamarck’s science was indeed revolutionary for its time, emphasizing nonreligious materialism and imagining a version of evolutionary change.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

The town was also the birthplace of French revolutionary Georges Jacques Danton.

From BBC • Mar. 18, 2026

The church didn’t yet realize how dangerous, how revolutionary, that idea was.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife