marcher

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Recent Examples of marcher 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 Onlookers left restaurants and offices to line the streets to catch a glimpse of the marchers. Jamie Landers, Dallas Morning News, 8 Jan. 2026 Yet as the parade began, the marchers saw that this would not be a normal year. Patrick Salland, Kansas City Star, 7 Nov. 2025 In a state that sets the standard for music education and a region that pushes the limits of what marching bands can do, directors meticulously correct every arm angle, facial expression and the spacing between each marcher. Rachel Royster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for marcher
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Noun
  • Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were spotted in terminals, including at Philadelphia International Airport, where a protester was seen at one of the checkpoints holding a sign criticizing ICE.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Moe, a Minnesota native, is a poet and protester.
    Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 15 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Regardless of what kind of weapon was used, Bibring said firing any weapon at a demonstrator’s head qualifies as a use of lethal force, and nothing in the video shows Islas, or anyone else, acting threatening.
    James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2026
  • From 2016 to 2019, the shipbuilder conducted multiple trials using a one-fifth-scale demonstrator with roughly 540 square feet of sail area to analyze aerodynamics, sail control, and structural behavior.
    Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 15 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Columbia students, along with outside agitators, broke into an academic building and temporarily detained the janitors inside.
    Rose Horowitch, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2026
  • But other than Bedard and MacKenzie Weegar getting into it a couple of times, Mangiapane was the only real agitator the Blackhawks had.
    Mark Lazerus, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2026

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“Marcher.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/marcher. Accessed 29 Mar. 2026.

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