demonstrator

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Recent Examples of demonstrator At this stage, the Helios Horizon serves as a technology demonstrator to illustrate potential gains in range and endurance for electric propulsion. Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 10 June 2026 The first step is a sub-scale suborbital demonstrator, called Vortex-D, that Dassault says could fly as soon as 2028. Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 15 May 2026 Georgia State Patrol officers detain a demonstrator on the campus of Emory University during a pro-Palestinian demonstration on April 25, 2024, in Atlanta. CBS News, 23 Apr. 2026 Back at Mill Creek Park, amid a crowd of protesters taking a breather after the march, one demonstrator flies a kite. Jenna Ebbers, Kansas City Star, 28 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for demonstrator
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Noun
  • Prosecutors argued that Song planned an ambush with the intent to kills officers, while the defense argued that Song fired into the ground after seeing Gross point his gun at a protester and that the shot that hit the officer might have been a ricochet.
    Rachel Royster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 June 2026
  • According to an incident report from the Greer Police Department, an altercation broke out between an event attendee and a protestor outside the venue.
    Phillip M. Bailey, USA Today, 9 June 2026
Noun
  • Mayor Johnson pointed to a visit with Jackson to Selma, Alabama, to commemorate Bloody Sunday — the infamous day in 1965 in which some 600 marchers set off from Selma headed for the state capital of Montgomery in response to a shooting that killed a civil rights activist.
    Adam Harrington, CBS News, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Nearly 61 years ago, Americans watched in horror as peaceful marchers in Selma, Alabama, were attacked for demanding the right to vote.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 10 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • The day shift also starts making factory-work jokes, with Rekha playing a perky do-bee who just wants to make the boss happy, and Lily adopting an agitator role, demanding workman’s comp and trying to spark revolt.
    Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 16 June 2026
  • The patron saint of the 2024 Democratic National Convention was Fannie Lou Hamer—recalcitrant sharecropper turned agitator and, like the Democratic presidential nominee, a black woman.
    Ta-Nehisi Coates, Vanity Fair, 15 June 2026

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“Demonstrator.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/demonstrator. Accessed 25 Jun. 2026.

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