as in revolutionaries
a person who favors rapid and sweeping changes especially in laws and methods of government
radicals staged large, violent protests in the hopes of toppling the government
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Recent Examples of radicals
American Muslims for Palestine has repeatedly come under fire over leading members’ past ties to foreign terrorists, though the group denies supporting such radicals.
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Hudson Crozier,
The Washington Examiner,
26 June 2026
Every House Democrat, in safe and competitive districts alike, will now answer to the radicals calling the shots.
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Miranda Jeyaretnam,
Time,
24 June 2026
Where are the voices of all the mainstream Democrats in response to the takeover by the radicals in the Democratic Party today?
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Voice Of The People,
New York Daily News,
21 June 2026
The one in which his tiny team of negotiators surrendered to the radicals ruling that luckless nation.
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Kevin Rennie,
Hartford Courant,
20 June 2026
The actor got his start on Family Ties, an '80s sitcom about the Keaton family, whose matriarch and patriarch were once 1960s radicals now attempting to raise their Reagan-era children in suburbia.
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Rebecca Aizin,
PEOPLE,
9 June 2026
Increasingly, however, that tent seems to have room for radicals and ideological extremists while pushing out Democrats who think independently.
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Doug Friednash,
Denver Post,
3 June 2026
More than ever, the uneasy mix of liberals and radicals needs to return to that approach.
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Michael Kazin,
The Atlantic,
3 June 2026
In the North, the Republicans were split between moderates and radicals, while the Democrats were split between loyal Unionists and conservatives who preferred peace to a bloody war that pivoted on abolition.
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Encyclopedia Britannica,
26 May 2026
Hudson Crozier,
The Washington Examiner,
26 June 2026
Every House Democrat, in safe and competitive districts alike, will now answer to the radicals calling the shots.
—
Miranda Jeyaretnam,
Time,
24 June 2026
Where are the voices of all the mainstream Democrats in response to the takeover by the radicals in the Democratic Party today?
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Voice Of The People,
New York Daily News,
21 June 2026
The one in which his tiny team of negotiators surrendered to the radicals ruling that luckless nation.
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Kevin Rennie,
Hartford Courant,
20 June 2026
The actor got his start on Family Ties, an '80s sitcom about the Keaton family, whose matriarch and patriarch were once 1960s radicals now attempting to raise their Reagan-era children in suburbia.
—
Rebecca Aizin,
PEOPLE,
9 June 2026
Increasingly, however, that tent seems to have room for radicals and ideological extremists while pushing out Democrats who think independently.
—
Doug Friednash,
Denver Post,
3 June 2026
More than ever, the uneasy mix of liberals and radicals needs to return to that approach.
—
Michael Kazin,
The Atlantic,
3 June 2026
In the North, the Republicans were split between moderates and radicals, while the Democrats were split between loyal Unionists and conservatives who preferred peace to a bloody war that pivoted on abolition.
—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
26 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for radicals
Noun
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Or was July 4, 1776, for the revolutionaries who founded the US, actually an undistinguished day?
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Trade the tricorn hats, bonnets and homespun shirts for flip flops, sneakers and soccer jerseys, and the intrepid revolutionaries of 1776 would have looked a lot like the people of 2026.
Noun
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More than 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were systematically massacred in the East African nation by Hutu extremists over roughly 100 days from April to July 1994.
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Opportunists like the daycare group, which was selling weapons, and extremists — not the hobbyists.
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“Radicals.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/radicals. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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