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agitators
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Longtime forward Claude Lemieux, one of hockey’s fiercest competitors and greatest agitators during a memorable 21-year NHL career that included four Stanley Cup championships and a one-year stint in the San Jose Sharks organization, died unexpectedly on Thursday.—
Curtis Pashelka,
Mercury News,
28 May 2026 -
The confrontation, captured on video shared by FreedomNewsTV, shows the agitators trying to stop vehicles from leaving Delaney Hall in Newark.—
Stephen Sorace,
FOXNews.com,
27 May 2026
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“Protesters.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/protesters. Accessed 31 May. 2026.
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