prodder

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Noun
  • Yemen's Houthi rebels, aligned with Iran, have continued to launch attacks in the region despite the truce, including previous drone and missile strikes targeting Israel.
    Amanda Castro Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 June 2025
  • Young-il manages to separate from the group and betrays the rebels, killing two of them and faking his own death.
    Monica Mercuri, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
Noun
  • The division, which patrols downtown, said on X that troublemakers were throwing objects at officers at Los Angeles and Temple streets, adjacent to the federal building.
    Sarah Dean, NBC news, 10 June 2025
  • Those are but a few of King’s most memorable troublemakers.
    Randy Myers, Mercury News, 4 June 2025
Noun
  • Widely viewed as the most powerful of a broad array of insurgent groups active in northern Syria, HTS withstood regular attacks by the Syrian military, ultimately turning the tide last December.
    Tom O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 May 2025
  • In recent years, the PKK has been limited to isolated attacks inside Turkey as the Turkish military, backed by armed drones, has pushed its insurgents increasingly across the mountainous border into Iraq.
    Suzan Fraser, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2025
Noun
  • His trajectory in the music industry went from concert promoter and artist manager to entrepreneur who launched Absolute Merch with no funding in 2012.
    Andrea Zarczynski, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
  • Just hours after tickets went on sale Thursday (June 26) for the legendary rock band’s 2025 stadium tour, promoter TEG Van Egmond has announced second dates in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane due to overwhelming demand.
    Jessica Lynch, Billboard, 26 June 2025
Noun
  • That was the compromise needed to pass the measure, bill proponents said.
    Denise Amos, Mercury News, 18 June 2025
  • The bipartisan bill, which former President Biden signed into law in January, repealed two tax rules that proponents say have unfairly reduced benefits for many Americans who also receive government pensions.
    Aris Folley, The Hill, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • Known as Ship 36, SpaceX was planning to launch the Starship around the end of this month on a huge Super Heavy booster, in what would have been the rocket's 10th test fight.
    June 19, CBS News, 19 June 2025
  • The vehicle consists of two elements, both of which are designed to be fully and rapidly reusable — a first-stage booster called Super Heavy and a 171-foot-tall (52 meters) upper-stage spacecraft known as Starship, or simply Ship.
    Mike Wall, Space.com, 19 June 2025
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“Prodder.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prodder. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.

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