I. adjective
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dramatic/drastic/radical (= very big, especially in way that is surprising )
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The Industrial Revolution was a period of dramatic change.
free radical
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It is thought that free radicals can damage cells.
radical reform (= very big and important changes )
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His government adopted a policy of radical reform.
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■ NOUN
group
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Yet, the style of Samson is fundamentally different from those texts associated with the writing of popular radical groups .
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Incidents such as this one were commonly reported by military intelligence as evidence of black ties with radical groups .
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Buhle must point the finger at the other radical groups .
politics
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She was untainted by the radical politics of earlier reformers and wisely avoided the tendentious macro-economics of the Neo-Malthusians.
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His previous interests have been science fiction and drugs, and I suspect his present passion for radical politics will pass.
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The radical interconnectedness of culture is redeemed for a radical politics , and via transgressive reinscription.
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Despite his success, the senate objected both to practical training and to Stuart's radical politics .
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More remarkably, George Stephen was virtually silent on the later antislavery commonly associated with aspects of radical politics and militant nonconformity.
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Radical differences within the group began to appear.
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a radical leftist group
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He recommended a radical change in her diet.
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It was an incredibly radical decision.
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But the combination, the combination of visionary stuff and radical politics: that troubled me.
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Can it avoid self-destruction caused by the strong ideological differences among its moderate and its more radical factions?
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It is instructive to recall that the cause of conservation was conservative before it was ever radical .
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It was' 68, and we were both, you know, radical , and civil rights, and feminism.
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She hunted stereotypes down as if they were sewer rats and stuck radical slogans to the fridge door.
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The goals of this movement were to seek minimal economic improvements while preventing campesinos from looking for more radical solutions.
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Within the living memory of the older inhabitants of Dornie, there have been radical changes affecting both these waterways.
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You give too much publicity to radical oddballs....
II. noun
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■ ADJECTIVE
free
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It's believed that pollution can form substances in our body known as free radicals which speed up ageing.
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Two hot areas: products for dieters and antioxidants, which are thought to neutralize so-called free radicals that can damage cells.
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The mechanism of the process is brought about by the initial ionisation of water and the subsequent production of free radicals .
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Left to their own devices, these free radicals cause tissue damage.
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Reduced glutathione is known as a major low molecular weight scavenger of free radicals in cytoplasm.
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The ones of interest here are a highly reactive chemical species called free oxygen radicals .
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However, the products obtained from reactions with halides can be rather surprising - ie the dithiadiazole can trap free radical intermediates.
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So could malaria parasites be destroyed by assaulting them with free oxygen radicals ?
political
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Millionaires are unlikely to be social or political radicals .
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However, psychological, personality-based approaches have also been used to account for the behavior of political radicals .
young
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By the early nineties a significant proportion of young radicals had adopted Marxist ideas.
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This was particularly the case on college campuses, where the young radicals of the New Left dominated public debate.
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From the early 1890s Marxism caught on among young radicals with remarkable speed.
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Tom Hayden recalled the foment in Chicago 28 years ago that propelled him as a young radical into the national spotlight.
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Lots of young radicals see Orwell as part of the cold-war anti-Communist gang.
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student
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Much of the empirical research has examined student radicals .
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As some one who has experience with other students , what do you hypothesize about the student radicals ?
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Are student radicals of the left different from student radicals of the right?
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A final recommendation of the consultants was a radical attempt to forge a closer working relationship between the board and staff members.
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Her verbal spontaneity ruffled far too many feathers even if it attracted admiration from thousands of radicals and feminists.
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Millionaires are unlikely to be social or political radicals.
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Prime Minister Stolypin was murdered by radicals in 1911.
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Suddenly the confidence of the new radicals received a body blow.
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The Duma, packed by radicals, was dissolved by the Tsar in 1906.
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Unless it would be for wealthy men interested in acquiring as trophy wives lapsed radicals who look great in workout gear.
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With no real power-base of his own, he was one of the first radicals to suffer disgrace.