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/ɹˌɛvəlˈuːʃən/
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[ US /ˌɹɛvəˈɫuʃən/ ]
[ US /ˌɹɛvəˈɫuʃən/ ]
NOUN
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a drastic and far-reaching change in ways of thinking and behaving
the industrial revolution was also a cultural revolution -
a single complete turn (axial or orbital)
the plane made three rotations before it crashed
the revolution of the earth about the sun takes one year - the overthrow of a government by those who are governed
How To Use revolution In A Sentence
- Leaked Reports Detail Iran's Aid for Iraqi Militias," blared the headline on afront page story inThe New York Times, which went on to report on several incidents recounted in WikiLeaks documents that journalist Michael Gordon called "the shadow war between the United States and Iraqi militias backed by Iran's Revolutionary Guards. Ali Gharib: What Did WikiLeaks Really Tell Us About Iran?
- She was cautious, but Feinstein finds no trace of dishonour in the care she took to keep herself alive and free through successive waves of revolution and purgation.
- We must remember that the prime motive for Housmann's boulevards and circuses was to ensure that a strategically placed cannon could fire down many streets, quelling the citizens who were periodically disposed to revolution.
- There had been formerly on the pathways of Dardilly calvaries built by pious forebears; destroyed on order of the revolutionary proconsul of Lyon, the famous Fouché, the crosses lay in the grass. Archive 2008-03-09
- Having had some narrow escapes the priest was eventually arrested as a recusant priest and was tried by revolutionary Court.
- He still describes himself as a communist, and still calls for a revolution.
- (Applause) Without boasting, without any kind of immodesty, that is how we Cuban revolutionaries understand our internationalist duty. TRICONTINENTAL CONFERENCE
- The portrait, reputed to be the most widely reproduced photograph in the world, has come to symbolize not just the ideals of the Cuban revolution but of revolution in general.
- This was the first bloodless revolution the city, which has been burned down forty times in its history.
- The scientific revolution also had its corrosive impact on a literal interpretation of the Bible. Times, Sunday Times