radical idea
collocation in Englishmeaningsofradicalandidea
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radical
adjective
uk/ˈræd.ɪ.kəl/us/ˈræd.ɪ.kəl/
believing or expressing the belief that there should be great or extreme social or ...
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idea
noun
uk/aɪˈdɪə/us/aɪˈdiː.ə/
a suggestion or plan for ...
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(Definition ofradicalandideafrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Eastwood considers them to be irrelevant to the development of theradicalideaof citizen sovereignty and equality.
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They have chosen a strangely dull way - no diagrams, no case studies - of presenting aradicalideain practice.
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This was an extremelyradicalideain the 1960s as the dominant linguistic view was that conversation was too disordered to be studied.
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Teamwork, however, is intentional coordination in stronger sense, and it implicates a moreradicalideaof collective agency.
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Then, with a simple,radicalidea, they spawned a revolution.
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It is a veryradicalideasince it has never really been an aim of any government in the past.
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This was an interesting andradicalidea.
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I want to add aradicalideathat may prove helpful.
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I am bound to conclude that the sponsors of this motion have perhaps not followed through the implications of this bright, shinyradicalidea.
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With the abolition of the veto we are moving into an apparently much moreradicalideawhere pie in the sky has been elevated to a political ideal.
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He believed that smoking was a cause of cancer, which was aradicalideaat the time.
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Initially, it had many critics who couldn't believe that such a short article could present such aradicalidea.
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The authors explain that emergency action to address climate change is not so much aradicalideaas an indispensable course we must embark upon.
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Radical ideas on women's liberation were also pushed aside.
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Quality, colour, spectacle, and radical ideas will be at a premium as will events that use new techniques and ways of creating exciting theatre.
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The public was sceptical of this new party for its leaders' inexperience in government and seemingly radical ideas.
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Auclert proposed the thenradicalideathat there should be a marriage contract between spouses with separation of property.
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Some rare and radical ideas for keeping indigenous languages alive.
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At the time of its proposition, this was a relativelyradicalidea, as prior to then it was generally assumed that the typological categories were both discrete and desired forms.
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But, despite continuing to make proposals and fighting for the rest of his life, his radical ideas were never more than partly accepted.
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