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Recent Examples of demonstrator
Videos of the protest posted on social media Tuesday show law enforcement clashing with demonstrators outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Durango, where agents in tactical gear carried weapons capable of firing less-lethal projectiles.
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Katie Langford, Denver Post, 28 Oct. 2025
Outside the facility earlier this month, USA TODAY reporters saw demonstrators peacefully protesting.
—Christopher Cann, USA Today, 25 Oct. 2025
At another moment, a demonstrator in religious garb was shot directly in the face with pepper spray, leaving his chin bloodied.
—Jakob Rodgers, Mercury News, 24 Oct. 2025
In another, a demonstrator attempting to flee past the troops was tackled and pinned to the ground.
—Bonny Chu, FOXNews.com, 6 Oct. 2025
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Katie Langford, Denver Post, 28 Oct. 2025
Outside the facility earlier this month, USA TODAY reporters saw demonstrators peacefully protesting.
—Christopher Cann, USA Today, 25 Oct. 2025
At another moment, a demonstrator in religious garb was shot directly in the face with pepper spray, leaving his chin bloodied.
—Jakob Rodgers, Mercury News, 24 Oct. 2025
In another, a demonstrator attempting to flee past the troops was tackled and pinned to the ground.
—Bonny Chu, FOXNews.com, 6 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for demonstrator
Noun
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The reactions of Idaho lawmakers, lawyers and gun-rights activists to the killing of a Minnesota protester run the gamut.—
Sarah Cutler,
Idaho Statesman,
27 Jan. 2026
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And then there’s Kyle Rittenhouse, a counter-protester acquitted after fatally shooting two men and injuring another in Kenosha, Wisconsin, during the post-Floyd protests.—
Bill Barrow,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Jan. 2026
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The civil-rights workers Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, and Michael Schwerner had been murdered in Philadelphia, Mississippi, the previous summer, and that February, Jimmie Lee Jackson, a twenty-six-year-old marcher, was fatally shot by an Alabama state trooper after a voting-rights demonstration.—
Jelani Cobb,
New Yorker,
19 Jan. 2026
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The website rewrites the history of the day, describing the pro-Trump marchers as orderly and spirited while accusing Capitol Police of deliberately escalating tensions with their response.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
11 Jan. 2026
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Agents sprayed pepper balls and tear gas toward a nearby crowd of agitators as the altercation continued, though the man was ultimately released.—
Greg Wehner , Matt Finn,
FOXNews.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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This is why, apart from rhetoric, the MAGA crowd insists there must be outside money, outside organization, outside agitators here.—
Katherine Packert Burke,
Literary Hub,
28 Jan. 2026
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“Demonstrator.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/demonstrator. Accessed 30 Jan. 2026.
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