How to Use revolutionary in a Sentence
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For me, rock and roll is a revolutionary act in and of itself.
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Jim Ryan,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2026
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So this isn't a revolutionary new thing.
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CBS News,
25 Jan. 2026
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Apple still wants the world to perceive it as a force for revolutionary change.
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Chloe Veltman,
NPR,
1 Apr. 2026
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Okay, that is no revolutionary rule.
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Ian Miller Outkick,
FOXNews.com,
28 May 2026
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The best leaders are not the ones who pretend every new idea is revolutionary.
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Sonia Singh,
Rolling Stone,
2 Apr. 2026
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That was pretty revolutionary at the time, and it hasn’t really been touched on enough.
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Will Dukes,
Rolling Stone,
18 Apr. 2023
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Hip-hop, rock and roll, and even country music are full of revolutionary rhetoric and bloodthirsty threats.
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Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
11 Feb. 2026
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This is a revolutionary technique that hails from the region of Puglia.
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Victoria Spencer,
Martha Stewart,
21 Apr. 2026
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While this revolutionary route is the most eye-catching piece of this news, the brand new ships tracing it aren’t half bad, either.
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Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
23 Apr. 2026
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The once revolutionary fake meat purveyor can’t seem to outrun the looming specter of its own demise.
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Marnie Shure / The Takeout,
Quartz,
26 Feb. 2024
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How does this revolutionary period come to its end?
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David Frum,
The Atlantic,
10 June 2026
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What Skate Key did — at its best — was simple and revolutionary.
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Preezy Brown,
VIBE.com,
19 Mar. 2026
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Apple used to be cool, even revolutionary.
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Bill Goodykoontz,
AZCentral.com,
21 Aug. 2025
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Being able to pause a social media feed would be revolutionary.
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Jacob Feldman,
Sportico.com,
25 Mar. 2026
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Amid all this is the percolation of revolutionary talk, which Bologne tries to skirt at first.
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Kaely Monahan,
The Arizona Republic,
20 Apr. 2023
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What does that revolutionary movement look like?
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Jay Caspian Kang,
New Yorker,
10 Feb. 2026
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This week's quiz highlights revolutionary recipes, celebrity challenges — and a whole lot more.
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Kelly McGreal,
FOXNews.com,
14 June 2026
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Innovation doesn’t have to mean a revolutionary new idea or a total upheaval of the way things are.
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Stephanie Dillon,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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Some have hailed this mapping technique as a revolutionary survey method.
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Christopher Hernandez,
The Conversation,
29 Jan. 2026
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The team say that the ability to analyze the full sound fields produced by whales is revolutionary.
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The Physics Arxiv Blog,
Discover Magazine,
5 Jan. 2024
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The ability to do things like build a set proved revolutionary for Barker.
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William Earl,
Variety,
5 Sep. 2025
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Marjane Satrapi made revolutionary Iran come alive in stark black-and-white images.
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The Week Us,
TheWeek,
16 June 2026
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Against the Dutch in game two five days later, Robson switched to a back three — a move that felt revolutionary at the time.
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The Athletic Uk Staff,
New York Times,
18 June 2026
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All fascinating stuff but not much that’s revolutionary, in my humble opinion; at least, not at this stage.
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Greg Petro,
Forbes,
4 May 2023
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After all, this is a city best enjoyed layer by revolutionary layer.
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Regan Stephens,
New York Times,
2 July 2026
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The irony is that more people may be learning about Haiti’s revolutionary history in the process.
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Julia Gaffield,
The Conversation,
15 June 2026
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That's when the upstarts take over, and the once-revolutionary companies face the risk of becoming relics.
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Chris Anderson,
USA Today,
15 Apr. 2026
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All have been touted as revolutionary.
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Big Think,
3 Nov. 2025
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Choice itself is the revolutionary act.
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Caroline Rothstein,
InStyle,
30 Dec. 2025
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This level of frankness was nearly revolutionary at the time, and so the book was treasured as tweener samizdat.
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Kyle Smith,
wsj.com,
27 Apr. 2023
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The next four years [of story\ are not about becoming a revolutionary.
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Brian Hiatt,
Rolling Stone,
10 Nov. 2022
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Though far from a revolutionary by nature, John was a stickler for law.
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Literary Hub,
13 May 2026
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But who's to say there wasn't maybe a little working-for-the-weekend revolutionary in him?
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Trey Williams,
Fortune,
1 July 2022
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The genteel record producer did not look the part of a revolutionary.
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David Kamp,
Air Mail,
13 June 2026
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What have later become the brand’s hallmarks were, at one time, revolutionary, the duo agreed.
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James Manso,
Footwear News,
14 Nov. 2025
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The next four years [of story] are not about becoming a revolutionary.
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Lauren Puckett-Pope,
ELLE,
23 Nov. 2022
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Paul’s youth and vigor comes with lots of risk, the work of prior revolutionaries threatened to be set back many years.
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David John Chávez,
Mercury News,
28 Oct. 2025
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What most beguiles us today is the sense that a proud revolutionary lurked beneath the winsome savage, the snowy smile.
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Lauren Michele Jackson,
The New Yorker,
8 Aug. 2022
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Birth of a revolutionary Where did all this anti-monarchical fire come from?
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Matthew Redmond,
The Conversation,
9 Oct. 2025
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Back then, the new gizmo would have been considered nothing short of revolutionary.
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Leslie Katz,
Forbes,
29 Mar. 2024
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The question for me was always how much Bob changed over those 16 years, from young revolutionary to burnout.
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David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
27 Sep. 2025
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That was a huge lesson from Lee Marvin, who wasn’t a revolutionary.
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Vulture,
26 May 2023
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Being a revolutionary is so tied to her identity.
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Patrick Ryan,
USA Today,
25 Feb. 2026
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Nguyen, known as Madame Binh, was a bona-fide communist revolutionary.
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Judith Thurman,
The New Yorker,
17 Sep. 2021
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The former revolutionary lived a fairly long and quiet life thereafter, although her final years were marred by tragedy.
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Miriam Fauzia,
USA TODAY,
17 Sep. 2021
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But, like his opponent, Buhler doesn’t claim to be a revolutionary.
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Alixel Cabrera,
The Salt Lake Tribune,
16 Oct. 2021
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But the notion of Amtrak Joe as a policy revolutionary is still a stretch—to my mind, at least.
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John Cassidy,
The New Yorker,
3 May 2021
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The revolutionaries were successful after four hours but at the cost of 94 lives.
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USA Today,
29 June 2026
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One such unicorn was Mary Quant, the fashion revolutionary who died this week aged 93.
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Holly Thomas,
CNN,
15 Apr. 2023
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The revolutionaries succeeded in clearing the deck in a matter of days.
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Kapil Komireddi,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
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His parents also agreed to help hide the revolutionary, but after he was caught, they were wanted by the authorities.
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Katie Mannion,
Peoplemag,
29 Jan. 2024
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Seth Rogen is our shoo-in for the Argentinean revolutionary, of course.
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Los Angeles Times,
8 Aug. 2022
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Though less a revolutionary than Mao, Xi rules with a similarly firm grip on power.
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Stephanie Yang,
Los Angeles Times,
13 May 2022
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This was a double standard that all Haitian revolutionaries were held to – but Dessalines was singled out.
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Julia Gaffield,
The Conversation,
15 Oct. 2025
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Several of the world’s leading revolutionaries had spent time in the country.
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Daniel Immerwahr,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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The plot centers around a former revolutionary who must reunite with old associates to find his missing daughter.
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David Caraccio,
Sacbee.com,
4 Sep. 2025
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Black revolutionaries, on screen and off, can not be irrefutable monuments to what Blackness should be.
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Angelica Jade Bastién,
Vulture,
24 Nov. 2025
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But the revolutionaries lacked know-how, and soon, the operations were struggling.
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Vivian Salama,
The Atlantic,
24 May 2026
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Flowing from the roof to the street was the massive tricolor flag that revolutionaries had hung on liberation day.
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Anand Gopal,
New Yorker,
28 Feb. 2026
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But a chance meeting with a friend and former high school classmate who worked for Stan Lee, the comic book revolutionary, led to his first big break.
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Derrick Bryson Taylor,
BostonGlobe.com,
14 June 2023
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