radical
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"While women making the first move was a radical idea, being women-first was never about prescribing just one way to connect," said Wolfe Herd.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
On Sunday Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, asked about the bonkers statements young radical candidates made a few years ago that damage their electability today, laughed it off by quoting a friend: “Woke 1 was crazy.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Sumner was a radical Republican on the vanguard of the anti-slavery movement, and as an abolitionist, he was fighting to rewrite the Constitution using Frederick Douglass’ language.
From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2026
Instead of being dismissed as a radical fringe outfit, the anti-Flock movement is taking hold.
From Barron's ● Aug. 9, 2026
It was still a radical proposition for the time and widely criticized, particularly in the United States, where resistance to drift lasted longer than elsewhere.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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In the 1960s and ’70s, communal radicals and intellectuals such as E.F.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026
He insists that his focus is “the war inside Islam” between radicals and Western-aligned Muslim leaders.
From Salon ● Apr. 22, 2026
No one would accuse them of being radicals.
From Slate ● Mar. 25, 2026
Traditional CDT uses these tumor conditions to spark the formation of hydroxyl radicals, highly reactive molecules made of oxygen and hydrogen that contain an unpaired electron.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 1, 2026
He lived alone in a tiny rent-controlled apartment filled with soft snack foods, letters from imprisoned radicals, and the sorts of newspapers that have no fashion section.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
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