revolutionary
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While stressing that psilocybin is not a cure for cancer, he describes its potential impact on some patients as "revolutionary".
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
“This is really going to be a revolutionary truck,” Musk said in a prerecorded video on Thursday.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
The obdurate side of the character is lessened with a gesture Antíkona bestows on Ixmene — a reassurance that even though she’s a revolutionary, she’s still an affectionate sister.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
He has told colleagues the changes are intended to be evolutionary rather than revolutionary.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
Einstein solved this quandary—the puzzle of the photoelectric effect—but his solution was even more revolutionary than Planck’s hypothesis.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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Skopje is a city of statues, two or three hundred of them apparently, great big things in squares and in fountains commemorating tsars and dames, emperors and warriors, royalty and revolutionaries.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
But traditionally such groups prompt indignation among revolutionaries who insist they will not be forced out by their critics in Miami.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
In the Baltics, German Freikorps fought Bolshevik revolutionaries and local nationalists in an unsuccessful attempt to establish an independent German-dominated state.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
All were revolutionaries, changing the character of the world they inhabited and personifying the inventiveness at the heart of the American character itself.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026
Reform, not punishment, is her modus operandi, and Celia has succeeded in converting many young delinquents into productive revolutionaries.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
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