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.
  • The radical shift of the state GOP hasn’t come about overnight.
    Adrian Walker, BostonGlobe.com, 20 May 2022
  • Needling Biden as a pawn of the radical left won’t do it.
    Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 22 Oct. 2020
  • Time for some radical changes, first and foremost at the top.
    WSJ, 15 Sep. 2022
  • Here’s a radical idea: turn the top six into a top nine.
    Matthew Defranks, Dallas News, 12 Mar. 2021
  • But a sweaty woman with a big gun—and a child—was radical.
    Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • The most timid Democrats in the world could adopt it without fear of sounding radical.
    Alex Pareene, The New Republic, 11 Sep. 2020
  • That would have been a truly radical way for Stills to go.
    Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 8 Aug. 2019
  • In other words, no radical changes seem to be in the offing.
    Dan Gallagher, WSJ, 21 Jan. 2021
  • Calls for radical changes to policing have been at the heart of months of racial justice protests.
    oregonlive, 5 Jan. 2021
  • Because Democrats don't want to be radical on the issue, most of them, some do.
    Nbc Universal, NBC News, 17 Sep. 2023
  • The substance of his platform would have seemed radical just a few years ago.
    I.k. | Washington, The Economist, 1 Aug. 2019
  • 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
  • From snug to substantial, the house presents radical shifts in scale.
    Celia Barbour, House Beautiful, 13 Dec. 2016
  • Critics always have to make the case that Austen was radical.
    Lizzie Skurnick, New York Times, 14 July 2017
  • Over the next 13 months, there will be radical change across all of your serious bonds.
    Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 28 Oct. 2018
  • Public calls mounted for the court to make radical changes.
    Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Nov. 2021
  • Putting your own story into the world is a radical act.
    Kylie Groat, Seventeen, 1 May 2018
  • But some of the changes our experts predict are less radical.
    Brian Raftery, EW.com, 31 Mar. 2022
  • Twenty-five years ago, a small group of San Diego women had a radical idea.
    Barbara Bry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Nov. 2023
  • To get anything done the radical has to commit evil acts for good causes.
    David Brooks | Opinion, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Dec. 2017
  • Believe it or not, that was considered a radical idea at the time!
    Claire Shaffer, Rolling Stone, 31 July 2022
  • Many balked at the idea, dismissing it as too radical, too raw.
    Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 30 May 2023
  • The original mall was vacated and razed in 2020 to make way for the radical reimagining of the site.
    Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Rick is obsessed with how their ideas are still very radical.
    Marta Balaga, Variety, 29 Aug. 2021
  • But few pop stars have gone in as radical a direction as André 3000, who stepped away from a chart-topping career.
    Ken Makin, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Yet, one by one, Superstar seduced them with this radical idea: that the DEA might bring about the largest narcotics eradication in history without firing a single bullet.
    Patrick Winn, Rolling Stone, 13 Apr. 2024
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radical

2 of 2 noun
  • He was a radical when he was young, but now he's much more moderate.
  • In the ’20s and ’30s, there were millions of radicals in the United States.
    Todd Vanderwerff, Vox, 27 July 2018
  • Radicals from around the world flocked to Somalia to join in the fun.
    Mark Moyar, The Atlantic, 14 May 2017
  • But in the weeks since, the wild-haired radical has pedaled backward.
    Samantha Schmidt, Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2023
  • As in his Senate life, the Joe Biden of 2020 is no Democrat’s idea of a radical.
    Matt Flegenheimer, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2020
  • 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
  • The death toll from the bombings—the work of Islamist radicals—exceeded 250.
    Saeed Shah, WSJ, 9 May 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
  • Post knew, and had published, many of the leading reformers and radicals of the day.
    Adam Hochschild, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2019
  • Spider highlights a troupe of right-wing radicals as their paths crisscross on the cusp of a coup d'état in Chile in the early '70s.
    Tara Bitran, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Nov. 2019
  • There were always new-left radicals who tried to build bridges.
    John B. Judis, Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2020
  • In the process, these radicals damage cells and compounds such as DNA and proteins.
    Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 17 Jan. 2024
  • The radicals of the CUP stayed on the outside, though they were given regular updates on the plan.
    Esteban Duarte, Bloomberg.com, 12 Oct. 2017
  • 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 | Bethmthames@gmail.com, al, 26 May 2021
  • On one side were black and white radicals and liberals.
    Bill McGraw, Detroit Free Press, 29 July 2017
  • But he's moved far enough to the left that many Republicans still hammer him as a radical.
    Arkansas Online, 3 Sep. 2020
  • Nor has the president proved to be the leftist radical that some of his opponents feared.
    Washington Post, 6 June 2021
  • In many ways, rock musician Wayne Kramer was a true radical.
    Steve Appleford, Rolling Stone, 17 Feb. 2024
  • The truth of the matter is that these are just a few radicals from an enormous group of followers of the religion of Islam.
    Sehrish Ali, Teen Vogue, 15 Feb. 2018
  • 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
  • Their West Hampstead apartment became a hub for artists and radicals of all stripes.
    Penelope Green, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Imagine that Christian radicals took over the Vatican in Rome and held it for almost a month.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2023
  • The pose of the radical has been subverted to capitalist ends.
    Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 23 June 2020
  • The waifs and radicals may be gone, but the atmosphere in the Flore and beyond is more highbrow than the doomsayers imply.
    The Economist, 28 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • Stills was an army brat and far from a hippie radical; he was driven and a perfectionist.
    Bill Wyman, Vulture, 20 Jan. 2023
  • French authorities said it was used by IS radicals who killed a priest in Normandy.
    Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2018
  • According to Camp, the hydrating salve is a solid choice for protecting mature skin from UV rays, as well as from free-oxygen radicals.
    Jenny Berg, Vogue, 1 Feb. 2024

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