radical

In a sentence

Six example sentences with radical, each labelled with its topic.

• The redesign was radical: the company scrapped the physical keyboard entirely and bet the whole product on a touchscreen.

  Technology

• Radical reformers of the 1840s demanded a vote for every adult man, a change most of Parliament considered unthinkable.

  History

• The coach's radical plan benched every player over six foot six and ran the offense through five guards.

  Basketball

• The party's radical platform would abolish the senate and rewrite the constitution within a single term.

  Politics

• Descartes began with radical doubt, refusing to trust anything, even his own senses, until he could prove it.

  Philosophy

• The painting was radical for 1907, abandoning perspective entirely and showing a face from several angles at once.

  Art

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