agents provocateurs

plural of agent provocateur

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Noun
  • These OCORs are designed to last much longer than normal cleaning radicals.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Democrats have fostered an environment of evil, emboldening radicals to kill, steal, and destroy.
    Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The best challenger brands think like cultural insurgents.
    Erik Huberman, Rolling Stone, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Islamist insurgents have since May attacked Malian and foreign-owned businesses, including cement factories, sugar factories, and mines.
    Preeti Jha, semafor.com, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In some areas, rebels have claimed to have shot down a junta paramotor, according to a statement issued by the Burma Revolution Rangers group in April.
    CNN Money, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2025
  • When the Revolution began, many American rebels had no intention of breaking with the British empire.
    Sarah Botstein, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • India has long accused Canada – home to one of the largest Sikh populations outside India – of harboring Sikh extremists.
    Rhea Mogul, CNN Money, 7 Oct. 2025
  • No Nigerian officials will willingly, deliberately indulge in the act of siding with violent extremists to target any particular religion in this country.
    Paul Tilsley, FOXNews.com, 7 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Fragoso asked of the insurrectionists.
    EW.com, EW.com, 4 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Loners lashing out America has had genuine subversives and left-wing terror networks in the past.
    Michelle Goldberg, Mercury News, 27 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Together, O’Neill and Alicia navigate a rabbit hole of deranged folk singers, psychotic cops, boxing promoters, line dancing enthusiasts, and worst of all, podcasters, the truth blurs, bodies stack, and the nature of their search comes into question.
    Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 3 Oct. 2025
  • American baseball promoters were quick to see the potential of the Japanese market, touring the country as early as 1908.
    Jared Bahir Browsh, The Conversation, 2 Oct. 2025
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