Sample Sentences for
revolution
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revolution as in:  the computer revolution

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    The computer revolution disrupted the job market.
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    Biotechnology promises the greatest revolution in human history.  (source)
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    The reports that carry subtle threats and hint at revolution?  (source)
    revolution = violent overthrow of a government
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    Call it what you will, this stubbornness can lead only to revolution.  (source)
    revolution = fight to overthrow a government
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    And this was followed by another thought, far more revolutionary: "Maybe they just don't care!"  (source)
    revolutionary = dramatically different
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ary" means related to. This is the same pattern you see in words like honorary, cautionary, and momentary.
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    I imagine Juliet sneaking up to her room in the dark, and the silence, through the atmosphere of sleep so thick it feels solid, the lullaby of creaking floorboards and quietly hissing radiators, the slow revolutions of people orbiting wordlessly around one another….  (source)
    revolutions = circles
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    No Czech revolutionaries jumped out from behind the bushes to free us, but the Czech people fought back in less violent ways.†  (source)
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    It'll revolutionize the world, and you named it PATSY?†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ize" in revolutionize means to make. This is the same pattern you see in words like alphabetize, legalize, and vocalize.
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    When an individual has revolutionized therapeutics by his discovery of the continuous evolution of brain matter, conventional forms are unfitting, since they would seem to limit him to one of a class.  (source)
    revolutionized = dramatically changed
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    If you consider that for thirteen years this Institute has had a department of metallurgical research, which has cost over twenty million dollars and has produced nothing but a new silver polish and a new anti-corrosive preparation, which, I believe, is not so good as the old ones-you can imagine what the public reaction will be if some private individual comes out with a product that revolutionizes the entire science of metallurgy and proves to be sensationally successful!†  (source)
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    Owen remembered from the candidate's dossier that White had been credited with "revolutionizing packaging and distribution of meat products"; he'd left meat for education rather recently—when his own children (in his opinion) were in need of a better school; he'd started one up, from scratch, and the school had been quite a success in Lake Forest.†  (source)
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    Her father came from Sonora during the revolution.  (source)
    revolution = fight to overthrow a government
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    I shot it on a tight budget in the 1950s, but some of the camera work was revolutionary.  (source)
    revolutionary = dramatically different than what was done previously
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revolution as in:  revolution around the sun

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    The seasons are influenced by the earth's tilt and revolution around the sun.
    revolution = circular movement
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    After all, the very first time she took the sack through town, she turned the corner onto Munich Street, looked both ways, and gave it one enormous swing—a whole revolution—and then checked the contents inside.  (source)
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    With each revolution, just before her face sweeps the sand, she lifts her head gently and takes in the sun-salt smell.  (source)
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    Down, down … A final twist, a glance at the revolution counter, and he was done.  (source)
    revolution = circular movement
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    Relative rotational velocity is 0.05 revolutions per second.  (source)
    revolutions = circular movements around something
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    The winter advanced, and an entire revolution of the seasons had taken place since I awoke into life.  (source)
    revolution = circle
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    By great application, however, and after having remained during the space of several revolutions of the moon in my hovel, I discovered the names that were given to some of the most familiar objects of discourse; I learned and applied the words, 'fire,' 'milk,' 'bread,' and 'wood.'  (source)
    revolutions = circular movements around something
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    Hardly one revolution of the Thurmite moon had passed since Alyss' last incident:  (source)
    revolution = circular movement around something
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    Through the long revolutions around the suns of my last planet–the world of the See Weeds, as they were known here–I had waited.  (source)
    revolutions = circular movements
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    Just one quick revolution of a blue green planet around an unexceptional yellow star.  (source)
    revolution = circular movement
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    A wagon rattled leanly over the big cobbles; beyond the firemen, the grocer Bradley wound up his awning with slow creaking revolutions.  (source)
    revolutions = rotations
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    Mr. Simms obediently carried the wad around, and the body followed in the half revolution.  (source)
    revolution = movement around something
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    "Reducing the number of revolutions per minute," Mr. Foster explained. "The surrogate goes round slower; therefore passes through the lung at longer intervals; therefore gives the embryo less oxygen."  (source)
    revolutions = circular movements around something
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