PROTESTER Synonyms: 46 Similar and Opposite Words

protester

noun

variants or protestor

Definition of protester

as in demonstrator

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Recent Examples of protester 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 Printed and mounted on pieces cardstock were photos of protester’s family members and immigration records which could be found at the archive. — Stephanie Lam, Mercury News, 24 Aug. 2026 Shortly after noon that day, 17-year-old Víctor Hugo Daza, an unarmed protester, was fatally shot near Cochabamba’s central plaza by an army captain firing live rounds into the crowd. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 19 Aug. 2026 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 They've also been regularly blocked by a lone protester in Florida. — N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 8 Aug. 2026 Cohen took the fight public at the same meeting, orchestrating a stunt in which a protester in a Magnum-cone costume interrupted proceedings to call for a boycott. — Sam Birchall, Fortune, 7 Aug. 2026 While at the park, he’s caught in a police sweep and counterprotest that turns violent; one protester’s eye is liquefied. — Carolyn Kellogg, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for protester

Noun

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

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of demonstrator

Noun

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

Noun

At 6-10 and 250 pounds, Freedom looks like an unfamiliar agitator.

— Jerry Brewer, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026
For several years before the IAU vote, there had been agitators among the astronomical community lobbying for our solar system's nine worlds to become eight, and for Pluto's planetary status to be revoked.

— Keith Cooper, Space.com, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of agitator

Noun

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

Noun

Our reading list spanned the spectrum from GOP strategist Richard Viguerie and evangelical firebrand Francis Schaeffer to academic analysts like Erling Jorstad and George Marsden.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 25 Aug. 2026
Can Democratic firebrand Angie Nixon win in deep-red Florida?

— Fernando Cervantes Jr, USA Today, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of firebrand

Noun

Who might emerge as the provocateur of the Premier League touchline and who might cast dark aspersions in press conferences?

— Adam Crafton, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2026
Donalds defeated several primary challengers, including far-right online provocateur James Fishback.

— Caroline Linton, CBS News, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of provocateur

Noun

In recent years, totalizing ideologies such as communism, fascism, and Islamism have found dedicated audiences on social media, and the proliferation of demagogues manipulating people for malign ends is an ever-present worry.

— James Kirchick, The Atlantic, 13 Aug. 2026
And as Netanyahu’s coalitions hardened Schleien’s programs became edgier, skewering Netanyahu sycophants in the Likud Party, anti-élitist demagogues, cultic settlers, and rabbinic mandarins.

— Bernard Avishai, New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of demagogue

Noun

In a statement at the time, Domenicali said that F1 respected the promoter’s choice to end its run in 2026.

— Madeline Coleman, New York Times, 22 Aug. 2026
The lawsuit was filed Tuesday by Hyde Lane, the corporate entity for Demon Hunter, against Netflix, Netflix Studios and concert promoter AEG Presents.

— Martin Goillandeau, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026

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