Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for agents provocateurs
Noun
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With the treaty up for renewal, a group of Black World radicals seeks to stop the agreement so that demons can wipe out humans and overtake our existence.—
Declan Gallagher,
Entertainment Weekly,
30 Oct. 2025 -
Young radicals weren’t the only ones who sought Moore out.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Oct. 2025
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Yet those soldiers and sailors had to stretch across a vast global canvas, leaving fewer than three in ten of them to try to rout the insurgents in North America.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Nov. 2025
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Subsequent reporting showed how Maduro loyalists infiltrated the training camps of the would-be liberators and betrayed their cause, leading to the execution of six leaders and capture of dozens of insurgents.—
Antonio Maria Delgado,
Miami Herald,
7 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Young Ofelia and her pregnant mother have been brought to live in the countryside, where her brutal stepfather Captain Vidal’s job is to wipe out the remaining rebels camped in the local forest.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
5 Nov. 2025
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The apparent killing – captured on video shared online by the rebels themselves – took place at a university medical school in El Fasher in Sudan’s western Darfur region after the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) took over the city on Sunday.—
Ivana Kottasová,
CNN Money,
30 Oct. 2025
Noun
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But there’s nothing good about voting in two extremists into office, under any party affiliation.—
Nicole Russell,
USA Today,
6 Nov. 2025
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The message referenced the murder of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, who was killed by Islamic extremists in 2004 after releasing a short film critical of Islam.—
Peter Kiefer,
HollywoodReporter,
5 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Across China, tens of thousands of people tagged as troublemakers like the Yangs are trapped in a digital cage, barred from leaving their province and sometimes even their homes by the world’s largest digital surveillance apparatus.—
Sheryl Estrada,
Fortune,
9 Sep. 2025
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In a recent study published in Nature Aging, researchers at UC San Francisco sought to identify the molecular troublemakers that cause our brains to age prematurely.—
Pranjal Malewar,
New Atlas,
2 Sep. 2025
Noun
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But, first, one of the January 6th insurrectionists, emboldened by his pardon from the President, is now campaigning for reparations.—
Charles Bethea,
New Yorker,
24 Sep. 2025
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Fragoso asked of the insurrectionists.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
4 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Loners lashing out America has had genuine subversives and left-wing terror networks in the past.—
Michelle Goldberg,
Mercury News,
27 Sep. 2025
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Volunteering opportunities across each of these platforms are as vast and varied as any other form of travel, from hostels seeking receptionists, cleaners and party promoters, to surf schools in need of teachers, to local families looking for childcare workers.—
Georgiana Ralphs,
CNN Money,
31 Oct. 2025
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Drake and Ross have been high-profile promoters of Stake, receiving millions from the company to engage in livestream gambling promoting the platform.—
Nancy Dillon,
Rolling Stone,
28 Oct. 2025
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“Agents provocateurs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/agents%20provocateurs. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.
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