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Recent Examples of protester
The reactions of Idaho lawmakers, lawyers and gun-rights activists to the killing of a Minnesota protester run the gamut.
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Sarah Cutler, Idaho Statesman, 27 Jan. 2026
And then there’s Kyle Rittenhouse, a counter-protester acquitted after fatally shooting two men and injuring another in Kenosha, Wisconsin, during the post-Floyd protests.
—Bill Barrow, Chicago Tribune, 27 Jan. 2026
The gesture came a day after 37-year-old protester Alex Pretti was shot multiple times and killed during protests in Minneapolis.
—Kels Dayton, Hartford Courant, 27 Jan. 2026
Last week, Iranian state TV aired footage that focused on a sign held by a pro-government protester.
—Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 21 Jan. 2026
Moments after being struck directly by a flash-bang in an encounter with federal agents in Minneapolis, a protester showed CNN’s Ryan Young where shrapnel from the flash-bang became embedded into her knee.
—Graham Hurley, CNN Money, 20 Jan. 2026
Those on the right, determined to make the case that this was an officer killing in self-defense, should instead be beginning with this utter failure to protect the life of a civilian protester and de-escalate the situation through some means other than shooting a fellow American in the head.
—Arkansas Online, 10 Jan. 2026
The discussion between the female protester and the Border Patrol agent ended with the woman urging the agent not to support ICE.
—Alexandra Koch, FOXNews.com, 9 Jan. 2026
Violent crime has surged in Peru in recent years, and a protester, named as 32-year-old Eduardo Ruiz, was killed earlier in the month.
—Ellie Cook, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025
Sarah Cutler, Idaho Statesman, 27 Jan. 2026
And then there’s Kyle Rittenhouse, a counter-protester acquitted after fatally shooting two men and injuring another in Kenosha, Wisconsin, during the post-Floyd protests.
—Bill Barrow, Chicago Tribune, 27 Jan. 2026
The gesture came a day after 37-year-old protester Alex Pretti was shot multiple times and killed during protests in Minneapolis.
—Kels Dayton, Hartford Courant, 27 Jan. 2026
Last week, Iranian state TV aired footage that focused on a sign held by a pro-government protester.
—Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 21 Jan. 2026
Moments after being struck directly by a flash-bang in an encounter with federal agents in Minneapolis, a protester showed CNN’s Ryan Young where shrapnel from the flash-bang became embedded into her knee.
—Graham Hurley, CNN Money, 20 Jan. 2026
Those on the right, determined to make the case that this was an officer killing in self-defense, should instead be beginning with this utter failure to protect the life of a civilian protester and de-escalate the situation through some means other than shooting a fellow American in the head.
—Arkansas Online, 10 Jan. 2026
The discussion between the female protester and the Border Patrol agent ended with the woman urging the agent not to support ICE.
—Alexandra Koch, FOXNews.com, 9 Jan. 2026
Violent crime has surged in Peru in recent years, and a protester, named as 32-year-old Eduardo Ruiz, was killed earlier in the month.
—Ellie Cook, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for protester
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France, in cooperation with the European Space Agency, is testing the V-MaX vehicle, a hypersonic demonstrator that completed its first successful flight in 2024.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
7 Nov. 2025
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To voice his frustrations, Mills, 37, of Chicago, has become a weekly demonstrator at the Broadview ICE facility.—
Nicquel Terry Ellis,
CNN Money,
2 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Instead, demonstrators bundled up in parkas and snowsuits left the park about 2 p.m. for Target Center, with marchers stretching more than a dozen blocks through the heart of downtown.—
Nick Woltman,
Twin Cities,
23 Jan. 2026
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The civil-rights workers Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, and Michael Schwerner had been murdered in Philadelphia, Mississippi, the previous summer, and that February, Jimmie Lee Jackson, a twenty-six-year-old marcher, was fatally shot by an Alabama state trooper after a voting-rights demonstration.—
Jelani Cobb,
New Yorker,
19 Jan. 2026
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Agents sprayed pepper balls and tear gas toward a nearby crowd of agitators as the altercation continued, though the man was ultimately released.—
Greg Wehner , Matt Finn,
FOXNews.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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This is why, apart from rhetoric, the MAGA crowd insists there must be outside money, outside organization, outside agitators here.—
Katherine Packert Burke,
Literary Hub,
28 Jan. 2026
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One objector is Katie Brydon, a 25-year resident of Northglenn and a licensed addiction counselor.—
John Aguilar,
Denver Post,
22 Nov. 2025
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There are unanswered overtures from the choir’s pianist Horner (Robert Emms), a soft, vulnerable young man whose conscientious-objector status renders him a fellow outsider.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
19 Oct. 2025
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Trump’s proposal echoes a long-standing push by progressive Democrats and a few conservative firebrands on Capitol Hill to implement credit card interest rate caps, which would limit the fee a card issuer can charge consumers who carry a balance past their due date.—
Sudiksha Kochi,
The Hill,
15 Jan. 2026
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While Collier and Stewart have accepted the duty to be labor firebrands, one of their UConn teammates, Morgan Tuck, is making her mark on the management side, as the youngest GM in the WNBA.—
Dom Amore,
Hartford Courant,
15 Jan. 2026
Noun
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In 1988, when the Sun-Times sports section was seeking a provocateur, Boers was the choice.—
Phil Rosenthal,
Chicago Tribune,
24 Jan. 2026
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Local far-right provocateur David Pettinger attended the Wednesday hearing to air rumors that swirled online that the bill was backed by Israel, which is thousands of miles away.—
Idaho Statesman,
Idaho Statesman,
23 Jan. 2026
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Where is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Zohran Mamdani and the rest of the radical fringe left who take every opportunity to demagogue and slander Israel, and yet not one word about Iran?—
Bobby Zirkin,
Baltimore Sun,
8 Jan. 2026
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In turn, the erosion of trust has weakened the social contract that sustains representative government, leaving democracies more vulnerable to populist demagogues, institutional paralysis, and the gradual normalization of authoritarian alternatives.—
NIC CHEESEMAN,
Foreign Affairs,
16 Dec. 2025
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The friend who went to the nightclub with Rodriguez, and was at the apartment while she was raped, confronted the promoter who first invited them to the club the next day, according to the lawsuit.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
29 Jan. 2026
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The tour will be a nostalgia rush filled with era-defining hits, as the tour’s promoter Live Nation describes it.—
Rashad Alexander,
Kansas City Star,
28 Jan. 2026
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“Protester.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/protester. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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