PICKETER Synonyms: 47 Similar and Opposite Words

picketer

noun

Definition of picketer

as in protester

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Dylan Kupsh, 27, emerged as a vocal UCLA protester and an outlier in the campus movement.

— Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2026
Pretti was using his phone to record immigration agents when officers violently shoved a protester towards him, video showed.

— Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of protester

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Rheinmetall Laser Weapon System Rheinmetall and MBDA Germany have developed a naval laser demonstrator intended to defeat drones and other small, rapidly moving targets.

— Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 5 Sep. 2026
This will be followed by the A2 demonstrator that will upgrade performance and include actual weapons by 2030.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 24 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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Their manager has not been the firebrand from the University of Tennessee that everyone expected.

— Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026
The independent, nonpartisan survey by EPIC-MRA of Lansing shows El-Sayed, the former director of Detroit and Wayne County's health departments and progressive firebrand, leading Rogers 47%-43% with 10% undecided.

— Todd Spangler, Freep.com, 31 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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