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extremist

[ik-stree-mist] / ɪkˈstri mɪst /
NOUN
person zealous about a belief
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STRONGEST


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But it was not included in the office's summaries documenting Bayoumi's extremist connections.

From BBC Sep. 7, 2026

It’s a tragedy when any human life is taken, here or abroad, by a soldier or an extremist.

From Salon Sep. 2, 2026

Authorities believe that the girl was radicalized in the same extremist online networks as Vazquez and Clark and communicated with them using the messaging platform Signal, O’Neill said.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 31, 2026

Without some transparency, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent pointed out, bad actors can hide “fraud, abuse, and extremist activity behind complicated nonprofit arrangements.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 27, 2026

But beyond all this, unknown even to himself, Armstrong was an extremist.

From The Spell by William Dana Orcutt

This came even as three heroic Muslim men gave their lives in May while defending some 240 children at the Islamic Center of San Diego from anti-Muslim extremists.

From Salon Sep. 11, 2026

The BBC can reveal that those staff objected to a line in the report concluding that he was "an unlikely candidate for clandestine involvement with Islamist extremists".

From BBC Sep. 7, 2026

On Thursday, his name appeared on Russia's online register of "terrorists and extremists" -- a blacklist maintained by Russia's Rosfinmonitoring financial watchdog.

From Barron's Jul. 30, 2026

Western governments are watching to see if Sharaa’s Islamist-led government can keep a lid on potential extremists in the country.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 7, 2026

Adams went to his grave claiming that these laws never enjoyed his support, that their chief sponsors were Federalist extremists in the Congress, and that he had signed them grudgingly and reluctantly.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis




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