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Recent Examples of demagogue The beneficiaries of this trend are tyrants, demagogues, and other power-wielders. Foreign Affairs, 19 Aug. 2025 Today a new generation of demagogues claim to be fighting to liberate aggrieved majorities from outsiders’ control. Derek R. Peterson, The Conversation, 18 July 2025 But today’s leaders, willfully do the biddings of billionaires and backed by demagogues in exchange for power and privilege, are ignoring that call. Jared Nordlund, The Orlando Sentinel, 12 July 2025 At a time when the demagogue Father Coughlin was flooding the radio with antisemitic hate speech, Berg offered counterprogramming. Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 9 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for demagogue
Recent Examples of Synonyms for demagogue
Noun
  • Country music’s premier agitator, Gavin Adcock, is also on the lineup.
    Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 25 Sep. 2025
  • But while that may serve Natthaphong’s interests to appear as the chief agitator for reform, losing his military foil could conversely prove problematic.
    Charlie Campbell, Time, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Labour has slumped to around 20% in recent polls, while Reform UK – the upstart hard-right party led by firebrand Nigel Farage – has surged to around 35%, the same share that Labour won last year.
    Christian Edwards, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The clearest firebrand of the group is Suzanne (Mia Barron), whose patronizing politeness will eventually give way to rage once her views are challenged.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 24 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Eide and other proponents of expanding hospitalization believe the administration could do even more.
    Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Closure of the bike path to undertake this project has drawn opposition from cycling proponents and West Sacramento Mayor Martha Guerrero.
    Ishani Desai, Sacbee.com, 28 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Alcalá has pleaded guilty to collaborating with Colombia’s FARC rebels.
    Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The rebels also cited the need to take out the massive scam operations as justification for their offensive – which analysts say China likely greenlit.
    Helen Regan, CNN Money, 30 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
Noun
  • One overzealous protester attempted an unsuccessful knife attack on Welles himself.
    Marlene L. Daut September 22, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Certain groups who face discrimination and harassment could level the playing field by recording their interactions with others, and at mass protests like the recent events in Nepal, seeing events from a protestor’s point of view could be valuable.
    Cortney Harding, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The most sensational collision of the FCC, the radio networks, and notions of the public interest was inspired not by Orson Welles but by another multihyphenate auteur, the screen goddess and provocateur Mae West.
    Thomas Doherty, HollywoodReporter, 30 Sep. 2025
  • But former friends have reportedly said Jahn was not overtly political, describing him instead as an online provocateur who said things for shock value.
    Alia Shoaib, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Patrick Mahomes and the reigning AFC champion Chiefs look more vulnerable than in years past and are just 2-2 entering Monday night’s game against the Jaguars.
    James Boyd, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Cleveland named Dillon Gabriel the starter for the game, benching veteran Super Bowl champion Joe Flacco.
    Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 5 Oct. 2025

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“Demagogue.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/demagogue. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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