PICKETER Synonyms: 47 Similar and Opposite Words

picketer

noun

Definition of picketer

as in protester

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Noun

Luk recalls seeing reports about a teenage protester and wondering why there couldn’t be a patron saint for protest, and what the origin story of a new saint might look like.

— Callum McLennan, Variety, 15 Aug. 2026
Driscoll and others involved in the mission worried that something far less dramatic could derail it, such as an accidental weapon discharge, an isolated confrontation with a protester or a guardsman caught on camera behaving poorly.

— Steven Beynon, ABC News, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of protester

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That facility will serve as a one-megawatt commercial demonstrator and provide longer-duration reliability testing.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 20 Aug. 2026
The test flight of Heart Aerospace’s X1 demonstrator aircraft took place at Plattsburgh International Airport in upstate New York on August 12.

— Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of demonstrator

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That would be intolerable in any other setting – not because every voter or marcher is admirable, but because constitutional rights are not based on a government employee’s benevolent opinion.

— George A. Mocsary, The Conversation, 7 July 2026
The corporation’s Senatobia store was closed as marchers protested Friday.

— Bracey Harris, NBC news, 28 June 2026

Definition of marcher

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Compared to front load washers, top load washers have what’s called an agitator in the center of the vertical drum that’s used to create friction amongst the clothes when washing.

— Ashlyn Needham, Southern Living, 14 Aug. 2026
Naturally, Cornyn’s increasing role as a White House agitator and swing vote hasn’t gone over well with the MAGA base.

— Ramsey Touchberry, The Washington Examiner, 25 July 2026

Definition of agitator

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In a moment when voters increasingly reward populist firebrands, Becerra presents as calm, workmanlike, and maybe a little boring.

— Ben Paviour August 17, Sacbee.com, 17 Aug. 2026
If the conservative base continues to demand ideological purity, pushing polarizing firebrands into a general election, the result will always be an immediate, lopsided blowout.

— Dain Fitzgerald, The Washington Examiner, 1 Aug. 2026

Definition of firebrand

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The process involves a series of hearings in which election judges review signatures one-by-one, and typically requires the objector and the candidate to hire an attorney.

— Kate Armanini, Chicago Tribune, 20 June 2026
After a two-year National Service stint as a hospital orderly (thanks to his own conscientious-objector status), Hockney landed at the Royal College of Art, in London, in the fall of 1959.

— Mark Rozzo, Vanity Fair, 12 June 2026

Definition of objector

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