How to Use radical in a Sentence

radical

1 of 2 adjective
  • The new president has made some radical changes to the company.
  • There are some radical differences between the two proposals.
  • The computer has introduced radical innovations.
  • And that will not be good for the radical left.
    — Joey Garrison, USA Today, 25 Sep. 2025
  • These ideas are not radical and not new.
    — Teresa Ghilarducci, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
  • To be clear, this isn’t a radical new idea.
    — Wendy Barnes, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2025
  • At the time, the idea felt radical.
    — Karin Eldor, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
  • This shouldn’t be a radical idea.
    — Shani Harmon, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • What many of us don't know is that her life was just as radical as her work.
    — The Editors, Town & Country, 3 Nov. 2022
  • These were once radical ideas, too.
    — Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 7 Sep. 2025
  • This is true of many of his other radical plans as well.
    — Susan B. Glasser, New Yorker, 30 Dec. 2025
  • And the grief was such a radical teacher about my life.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 4 June 2026
  • Rick is obsessed with how their ideas are still very radical.
    — Marta Balaga, Variety, 29 Aug. 2021
  • Time for some radical changes, first and foremost at the top.
    — WSJ, 15 Sep. 2022
  • What emerged from those meetings was a radical idea.
    — Big Think, 7 May 2026
  • Her open-plan layout was, again, quite radical for the time.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 14 Jan. 2026
  • But this year might call for something more radical.
    — Hanna Rosin, The Atlantic, 19 Feb. 2026
  • But that doesn’t stop the radical left from trying.
    — Jon Coupal, Oc Register, 2 Mar. 2026
  • His work feels at once restrained and radical.
    — Wwd Staff, Footwear News, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The substance of his platform would have seemed radical just a few years ago.
    — I.k. | Washington, The Economist, 1 Aug. 2019
  • But some of the changes our experts predict are less radical.
    — Brian Raftery, EW.com, 31 Mar. 2022
  • Many balked at the idea, dismissing it as too radical, too raw.
    — Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 30 May 2023
  • There is a lot that’s sensible in her plan; not a lot that’s new and radical.
    — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2022
  • If some of these more radical technologies come about—well who knows?
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 1 Dec. 2019
  • No doubt the radical left is sorry the attempt failed.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Slate is taking a radical approach to meet that price.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 13 Apr. 2026
  • The new group is less radical and much more reasonable.
    — Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 1 Apr. 2026
  • The new group is less radical and much more reasonable.
    — James Powel, USA Today, 2 Apr. 2026
  • The left’s radical takeover didn’t happen overnight.
    — Brilyn Hollyhand, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Calls for radical changes to policing have been at the heart of months of racial justice protests.
    — oregonlive, 5 Jan. 2021

radical

2 of 2 noun
  • He was a radical when he was young, but now he's much more moderate.
  • Soon, Joan ends up on the run with young radicals.
    — Marta Balaga, Variety, 6 Sep. 2025
  • The radicals on the left are the problem.
    — ABC News, 14 Sep. 2025
  • The radicals on the left are the problem.
    — Amie Parnes, The Hill, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Young radicals weren’t the only ones who sought Moore out.
    — Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2025
  • But in the weeks since, the wild-haired radical has pedaled backward.
    — Samantha Schmidt, Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2023
  • Berets were fashionable among radicals and the very old.
    — Literary Hub, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Radicals from around the world flocked to Somalia to join in the fun.
    — Mark Moyar, The Atlantic, 14 May 2017
  • Turns out there are rewards for not yielding to campus radicals.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 8 Mar. 2019
  • But such radicals also invoke loopholes to get around this rule.
    — Mohammad Hassan Khalil, The Conversation, 20 June 2019
  • Code Pink is a bunch of insane radicals and someone could have gotten hurt.
    — Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Post knew, and had published, many of the leading reformers and radicals of the day.
    — Adam Hochschild, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2019
  • In the next movie, the villains were right-wing cops abusing the law to eliminate radicals.
    — Graeme McMillan, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Feb. 2018
  • Arrayed against it are conservatives on the right and radicals on the left.
    — Barton Swaim, WSJ, 28 June 2019
  • My roommate thought Dylan was a radical who wanted to shake things up, as if that were a bad thing.
    — Beth Thames | [email protected], al, 26 May 2021
  • Stills was an army brat and far from a hippie radical; he was driven and a perfectionist.
    — Bill Wyman, Vulture, 20 Jan. 2023
  • Nor has the president proved to be the leftist radical that some of his opponents feared.
    — Washington Post, 6 June 2021
  • Right now, to my way of thinking, the Democrats are the radicals, because after four and five and six months.
    — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 17 Sep. 2023
  • That’s a very large percentage of people, who wouldn’t even call themselves radicals.
    — Isaac Feldberg, BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2018
  • But he's moved far enough to the left that many Republicans still hammer him as a radical.
    — Arkansas Online, 3 Sep. 2020
  • There were no radicals or young people, and there was no spokesman for the black nationalist movement.
    — Steven M. Gillon, Time, 1 Mar. 2018
  • Anti-western radicals around the world are watching.
    — Ayaan Hirsi Ali, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Sep. 2025
  • As with the ragtag group of radicals in their film, each brought their expertise to pull off a job that no one thought was possible.
    — Katie Rife, Vulture, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Their West Hampstead apartment became a hub for artists and radicals of all stripes.
    — Penelope Green, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Frustrated by the absence of clear choices, many turn to radicals and populists.
    — Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2019
  • People who lose their homes and households try to do things in desperation and this strengthens the hands of the radicals.
    — Washington Post, 11 Feb. 2020
  • The radicals get the headlines simply because their voices are the loudest.
    — Michael Zimm, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2018
  • More than ever, the uneasy mix of liberals and radicals needs to return to that approach.
    — Michael Kazin, The Atlantic, 3 June 2026
  • Her first identity was as a Marxist radical.
    — Shai Tubali, Big Think, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The pose of the radical has been subverted to capitalist ends.
    — Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 23 June 2020

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