prodders

plural of prodder

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for prodders
Noun
  • With the treaty up for renewal, a group of Black World radicals seeks to stop the agreement so that demons can wipe out humans and overtake our existence.
    Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Young radicals weren’t the only ones who sought Moore out.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In September, independent journalist Jason Paladino wrote that the Department of Justice appeared to have removed a study that found far-right extremists to be responsible for the most lethal terrorism since 1990.
    NPR, NPR, 25 Oct. 2025
  • The Goldman analysts aren’t extremists like, say, legendary venture capitalist Vinod Khosla, who says AI will automate 80% of all jobs by 2030.
    Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has successfully recruited prized political heavyweights in key battlegrounds, but left-wing insurgents are threatening to dash his plans to create a competitive midterm map for Democrats.
    Ramsey Touchberry, The Washington Examiner, 26 Oct. 2025
  • The best challenger brands think like cultural insurgents.
    Erik Huberman, Rolling Stone, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Young Ofelia and her pregnant mother have been brought to live in the countryside, where her brutal stepfather Captain Vidal’s job is to wipe out the remaining rebels camped in the local forest.
    Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 5 Nov. 2025
  • The apparent killing – captured on video shared online by the rebels themselves – took place at a university medical school in El Fasher in Sudan’s western Darfur region after the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) took over the city on Sunday.
    Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 30 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Loners lashing out America has had genuine subversives and left-wing terror networks in the past.
    Michelle Goldberg, Mercury News, 27 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Across China, tens of thousands of people tagged as troublemakers like the Yangs are trapped in a digital cage, barred from leaving their province and sometimes even their homes by the world’s largest digital surveillance apparatus.
    Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2025
  • In a recent study published in Nature Aging, researchers at UC San Francisco sought to identify the molecular troublemakers that cause our brains to age prematurely.
    Pranjal Malewar, New Atlas, 2 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • But, first, one of the January 6th insurrectionists, emboldened by his pardon from the President, is now campaigning for reparations.
    Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Fragoso asked of the insurrectionists.
    EW.com, EW.com, 4 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Volunteering opportunities across each of these platforms are as vast and varied as any other form of travel, from hostels seeking receptionists, cleaners and party promoters, to surf schools in need of teachers, to local families looking for childcare workers.
    Georgiana Ralphs, CNN Money, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Drake and Ross have been high-profile promoters of Stake, receiving millions from the company to engage in livestream gambling promoting the platform.
    Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 28 Oct. 2025
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“Prodders.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prodders. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.

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