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  • noun Someone who is into adventurism

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Examples

  • Mehi Karroubi, one of the defeated reformist candidates in June's disputed presidential elections, attacked Ahmadinejad at the weekend for his "adventurist" nuclear policy.

    The Guardian World News 2009

  • Mehi Karroubi, one of the defeated reformist candidates in June's disputed presidential elections, attacked Ahmadinejad at the weekend for his "adventurist" nuclear policy.

    The Guardian World News 2009

  • 11 Israel assumed that Arab public would treat the stance of Hizbullah as "adventurist" and "reckless."

    Monday, July 31, 2006 As'ad 2006

  • We can refuse to comply with oppressive forces, forswear allegiance to their mandates, forgo reliance on their wares, unplug our lifelines to their conveyances, reject their medicalizations and distractions, discontinue our support for their adventurist campaigns, fail to contribute to their bailouts and schemes, ignore their technocratic designs on mind control, cease making demands on their apparatchiks, and avert our gaze from their spectacles.

    Randall Amster: Occupy Ourselves Randall Amster 2011

  • We can refuse to comply with oppressive forces, forswear allegiance to their mandates, forgo reliance on their wares, unplug our lifelines to their conveyances, reject their medicalizations and distractions, discontinue our support for their adventurist campaigns, fail to contribute to their bailouts and schemes, ignore their technocratic designs on mind control, cease making demands on their apparatchiks, and avert our gaze from their spectacles.

    Randall Amster: Occupy Ourselves Randall Amster 2011

  • We can refuse to comply with oppressive forces, forswear allegiance to their mandates, forgo reliance on their wares, unplug our lifelines to their conveyances, reject their medicalizations and distractions, discontinue our support for their adventurist campaigns, fail to contribute to their bailouts and schemes, ignore their technocratic designs on mind control, cease making demands on their apparatchiks, and avert our gaze from their spectacles.

    Randall Amster: Occupy Ourselves Randall Amster 2011

  • He had marked out for himself a careful path between the adventurist rebels of America and an overreaching British Parliament.

    Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010

  • He had marked out for himself a careful path between the adventurist rebels of America and an overreaching British Parliament.

    Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010

  • Do they feel unconstrained in their adventurist course because they are confident that China will always be on their side whatever they may do?

    Ra Jong-Yil: North Korea's 'Military First' Politics Are Behind Recent Attacks Ra Jong-Yil 2010

  • It's an up and down thing, the human goals, because the human is always an explorer, an adventurist.

    Cesar Millan: Changing The World One Dog Owner At A Time 2010

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