popular : Idioms & Phrases

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  • noun a republic in northwestern Africa on the Mediterranean Sea with a population that is predominantly Sunni Muslim; colonized by France in the 19th century but gained autonomy in the early 1960s
    Algerie; Algeria.
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  • noun a violent terrorist group organized in the 1980s and advocating the overthrow of the Chilean military government; leaders are mainly criminals or impoverished youths
    Lautaro Youth Movement; Lautaro Faction of the United Popular Action Movement.
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  • noun a violent terrorist group organized in the 1980s and advocating the overthrow of the Chilean military government; leaders are mainly criminals or impoverished youths
    Lautaro Youth Movement; Lautaro Faction of the United Popular Action Movement.
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  • (Law), an action in which any person may sue for penalty imposed by statute.
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  • noun a Marxist-Leninist group that believes Palestinian goals can only be achieved by revolutionary change
    DFLP; Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine; PDFLP.
    • in 1974 the DFLP took over a schoolhouse and massacred Israeli schoolchildren
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  • noun a leftist coalition organized against a common opponent
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  • noun a terrorist group of limited popularity formed in 1967 after the Six-Day War; combined Marxist-Leninist ideology with Palestinian nationalism; used terrorism to gain attention for their cause; hoped to eliminate the state of Israel
    PFLP.
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  • noun a Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization that conducted several attacks in western Europe
    PFLP-GC.
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  • noun any genre of music having wide appeal (but usually only for a short time)
    popular music.
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  • noun any genre of music having wide appeal (but usually only for a short time)
    popular music.
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  • noun a belief or sentiment shared by most people; the voice of the people
    opinion; public opinion; vox populi.
    • he asked for a poll of public opinion
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  • noun a terrorist group of radical Palestinians who split with al-Fatah in 1967 but now have close relations with al-Fatah; staged terrorist attacks against Israel across the Lebanese border
    PSF.
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