revolutionary
Example Sentences
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Though firmly embedded in the culture today, “Survivor” was revolutionary when it debuted May 31, 2000, quickly becoming a cultural phenomenon.
From Los Angeles Times
The Harvard fellow was a scholar on treating disaster zone victims, but had been sentenced to death by a revolutionary court in Tehran for espionage charges he denied.
Such talk rattles many here who grew up in a country where government buildings still bear the revolutionary motto: “Homeland or death, we will prevail.”
From Los Angeles Times
Lamarck’s science was indeed revolutionary for its time, emphasizing nonreligious materialism and imagining a version of evolutionary change.
The town was also the birthplace of French revolutionary Georges Jacques Danton.
From BBC
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