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Recent Examples of firebrand The memorial service for Kirk, whom Trump credits with playing a pivotal role in his 2024 election victory, is expected to draw tens of thousands of mourners, including Vice President JD Vance, senior White House officials and young conservatives shaped by the 31-year-old firebrand. Nbc News, NBC news, 22 Sep. 2025 The memorial service for Kirk, whom Trump credits with playing a pivotal role in his 2024 election victory, is expected to draw tens of thousands of mourners, including Vice President JD Vance, senior White House officials and young conservatives shaped by the 31-year-old firebrand. Aamer Madhani, Fortune, 21 Sep. 2025 That could be a problem in the GOP primary, particularly with residents who are used to Roy’s ability to weave in and out of being a conservative-libertarian firebrand and an intellectual devoted to the movement’s ideas and principles. Taylor Millard, The Washington Examiner, 19 Sep. 2025 The heavy concentrations of dead and down fuels will complicate containment efforts and provide sources for firebrands and ember cast when adjacent to control lines. Ca Wildfire Bot, Sacbee.com, 15 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for firebrand
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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
  • The cases range from political agitators seeking to intimidate immigrants to others using the guise of authority to allegedly kidnap, rob or assault victims.
    Alexandra Banner, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Country music’s premier agitator, Gavin Adcock, is also on the lineup.
    Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 25 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Massive Attack have also joined a separate but parallel drive to pull music from Spotify altogether; proponents of that movement primarily cite founder Daniel Ek’s investment in weapons contractor Helsing, which is not linked to Israel.
    Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 6 Oct. 2025
  • With Newsom’s signature now on AB 1340, drivers can collectively bargain and unionize, including negotiating contracts, which would set industry-wide standards, according to proponents like bill sponsors Assemblymembers Marc Berman, D-Menlo Park, and Buffy Wicks, D-Oakland.
    David Lightman, Sacbee.com, 6 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • America seems unlikely to be made great again by the demagogues of white nationalism, who cannot help but channel fury over irreversible decline at those who have been working hard, through either literal or spiritual immigration, to become American.
    Pankaj Mishra, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Our shrinking attention span has left us vulnerable to demagogues and misinformation from every direction.
    Doug McIntyre, Oc Register, 31 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Back in the 1920s, even the Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin called on his British supporters to affiliate with the Labour Party instead of fighting it.
    Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 4 Oct. 2025
  • No victims speak in court While the court heard several pleas from Combs’ supporters Friday, the victims who testified at trial were noticeably absent from the hearing.
    Nicki Brown, CNN Money, 4 Oct. 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
  • Jahmai Jones’ two-run single in the top of the fifth proved the difference, punching Detroit’s ticket to the playoffs and ensuring the Tigers would go into Game 162 with a chance to claw back the AL Central title from the insurgent Cleveland Guardians on the final day of the regular season.
    Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Labels matter Security analysts say the situation in Haiti continues to defy clear international legal characterization and the choice of labels – crisis, armed conflict, gangs, terrorist groups, armed groups, criminal groups, insurgents – carries significant legal and humanitarian implications.
    Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 26 Sep. 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

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“Firebrand.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/firebrand. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.

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