Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for prodders
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Soon, Joan ends up on the run with young radicals.—
Marta Balaga,
Variety,
6 Sep. 2025 -
Lightning also sparks hydroxyl radicals, which help cleanse the air by breaking down methane and other gases.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
29 Aug. 2025
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TikTok, Bluesky, Substack, the gaming platform Discord and other new players, big and small, can all learn from past policies for keeping extremists off the Internet—and return to those content moderation roots.—
Steven Stalinsky,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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High-profile extremists of the time such as Richard Butler, Robert Mathews and David Lane supported the plan.—
Paul J. Becker,
The Conversation,
5 Sep. 2025
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This might enable a mission which, for example, a Viper is located covertly next to a safe house known to be used by insurgents.—
David Hambling,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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The state Republicans have routinely witnessed battles between far-right insurgents who in recent years have complained the party isn’t Trumpy enough and the financial institutional wing that has long been the GOP establishment and funded the party for decades.—
Rick Pearson,
Chicago Tribune,
14 Aug. 2025
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North was convicted in 1989 on three felony charges for helping to arrange the illicit sale of weapons to Iran and divert the proceeds to fund a secret war against anti-communist Contra rebels in Nicaragua.—
Josh Meyer,
USA Today,
11 Sep. 2025
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North was part of the twin schemes to sell weapons to Iran and then use proceeds to fund anti-communist rebels, known as the Contras, in Nicaragua.—
CNN.com Wire Service,
Mercury News,
10 Sep. 2025
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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
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With warm summer waters still lingering in the North Sea, plant operators and marine scientists will be watching closely for the next unpredictable wave of these gelatinous troublemakers.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
11 Aug. 2025
Noun
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It was left to Keys to try to corral the insurrectionists, who were day-drinking in the lobby.—
Charles Bethea,
New Yorker,
25 Aug. 2025
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Fragoso asked of the insurrectionists.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
4 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The Geiers are widely viewed with contempt as promoters of unsubstantiated claims that vaccines cause autism.—
Judy Stone,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Lyte goes out of business Multiple sources reported that Lyte went out of business, shut down its website, laid off staff and left a number of concert promoters unpaid for hundreds of thousands of dollars in tickets sold on the platform in 2024.—
Marcus Smith,
Sacbee.com,
16 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Further east, the Russian revolutionaries of 1917 adopted a utopian faith in material progress and science.—
Sonja Fritzsche,
The Conversation,
9 Sep. 2025
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The film was One Battle After Another, Anderson’s high-octane adaptation of Vineland, Thomas Pynchon’s anarchic 1990 novel about a crew of former leftist revolutionaries — the French 75 — living in a slightly more dystopian version of present-day America.—
Seija Rankin,
HollywoodReporter,
4 Sep. 2025
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“Prodders.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prodders. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.
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