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Six example sentences with revolution, each labelled with its topic.
Plate tectonics set off a revolution in geology, and textbooks written five years earlier became useless almost overnight.
Science
Photography caused a revolution among portrait painters, who abandoned exact likeness once a machine could do it in seconds.
Art
The container ship began a revolution in trade, since a factory in one hemisphere could suddenly supply shops in another.
Economics
The three-point revolution changed how every team builds a roster, and the back-to-the-basket center nearly vanished.
Basketball
Kant called his own work a Copernican revolution, since it asked how the mind shapes what we can know.
Philosophy
Recorded sound started a revolution in listening, since a family could hear a symphony without ever entering a hall.
Music
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