Quiet Revolution

noun

(in Canada) a period during the 1960s in Quebec, marked by secularization, educational reforms, and rising support for separation from the rest of Canada French nameRévolution tranquille

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Over the last century, Vought said, the U.S. has “experienced nothing short of a quiet revolution” and abandoned what he saw as the true meaning and force of the Constitution.

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In his view, the Democratic Party’s agenda and its “quiet revolution” could be stopped only by a “radical constitutionalist,” someone in the mold of Thomas Jefferson or James Madison.

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Its website boasts of starting a “quiet revolution in the Israel Defense Forces.”

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The reason: a quiet revolution that is making cancer drugs more affordable.

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Meteorologists call it the “quiet revolution”: a gradual but steady improvement in weather forecasting.

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