persecutor

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Recent Examples of persecutor The grounds once housed the elaborate palace of first century Roman Emperor Domitian, a persecutor of Christians. Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025 That is a nasty process which involves digging up Ambar’s still-fresh corpse, then subjecting it to various grisly indignities night after night as retribution gets visited upon our heroine’s persecutors. Dennis Harvey, Variety, 6 Aug. 2025 Using it to describe this week’s attack on Huwara – or other similar attacks in Israel or Palestine – effectively puts Israel in the place of the Jews’ historic persecutors. Joshua Shanes, The Conversation, 6 Mar. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for persecutor
Noun
  • Situations like this are certainly a nuisance, but the quickest way to cause animosity with your neighbors is to come between them and their sleep.
    Libby Monteith Minor, Southern Living, 4 Oct. 2025
  • While many consider the mammal a nuisance for raiding garbage cans and damaging property, raccoons can also carry diseases, and they probably shouldn't be kept as housepets.
    Marina Johnson, Louisville Courier Journal, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • For decades, generals, coup-plotters, and torturers walked free under the shield of amnesty laws passed after the country’s 21-year dictatorship.
    Julia Vargas Jones, CNN Money, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Is the man actually his torturer?
    Zach Dennis, Charlotte Observer, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • That’s quite a tease, not to mention a lot of pressure to put on her 12th release.
    Shannon Carlin, Time, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Living together in the Fear House, a group of strangers face OMG stunts, challenges, and a twisted game of social strategy, Banijay teases.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • As the seasons go on, Barbra charms her way from Reba's biggest annoyance to being her best friend.
    Eric King, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Oct. 2025
  • There’s a general mood of annoyance, more so with the police and the stewards rather than the defeat itself.
    James Pearce, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The documentary tells the true story of a teenage couple relentlessly bullied via text by an anonymous harasser.
    EW.com, EW.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Insect pests of camellias include tea scales and aphids, both of which produce a waste product called honeydew that encourages sooty mold on the foliage.
    Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 1 Oct. 2025
  • And then defensively, just try to be pests, try to create turnovers, which kind of helps our offense.
    Zack Cox, Boston Herald, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • On the Met’s stage, the writer — called, say, Jamal Khashoggi — would be sung by a heroic tenor, his tormentor by a demonic baritone.
    Justin Davidson, Vulture, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Thornton uses a wheelchair, and here his Lucky is guided by his tormentor.
    Frank Rizzo, Variety, 29 Sep. 2025

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“Persecutor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/persecutor. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.

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