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revolutionary

[rev-uh-loo-shuh-ner-ee] / ˌrɛv əˈlu ʃəˌnɛr i /




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The film tracks his team’s revolutionary work predicting the structure of nearly all known proteins, a breakthrough that was later rewarded with the Nobel Prize in chemistry.

From The Wall Street Journal

The Ayatollah was implacably anti-American, and the revolutionaries stormed the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal

But former-commander, Victor Dreke, is adamant that Cuba has ridden out tough times before and can do so again with enough revolutionary fervour.

From BBC

Museveni studied in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, in the 1960s when the university acted as a kind of revolutionary finishing school for anti-colonialists.

From Barron's

“External wars tend to strengthen revolutionary regimes in their early years, but military humiliations expose the brittleness of late-stage dictatorships.”

From The Wall Street Journal