PROTESTOR 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 In those pages, a protester strikes an ICE officer with her car before being shot by his partner, and the officer subsequently dies. — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 15 Oct. 2026 Thunberg, who rose to fame as a teenage protester against climate change but has since broadened her activism, said the French pupils deserved wider support. — Reuters, NBC news, 13 Oct. 2026 One protester attended the demonstration dressed as a character from The Handmaid’s Tale, a dystopian television series about women in a patriarchal society. — Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 8 Oct. 2026 During the second protester’s interruptions, Vance stressed the difference between Democrats and Republicans on issues such as policing and education. — Mabinty Quarshie, The Washington Examiner, 1 Oct. 2026 The brand also saw a higher rate of social mentions on X (Twitter) and an influx of comments on Instagram, surrounding the PETA incident involving CFDA chief executive officer Steven Kolb and a protester. — Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 17 Sep. 2026 Dylan Kupsh, 27, emerged as a vocal UCLA protester and an outlier in the campus movement. — Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 31 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

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Noun

Tensions peaked when a demonstrator threw a cup of blood from the spectators’ gallery onto the Senate floor, halting business for several hours before the bill passed.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2026
All these steps are followed only for the demonstrator reactor.

— Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 9 Oct. 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

Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez also cited agitators moving between schools to encourage violence.

— Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 10 Oct. 2026
Advertisement As protests intensified, state media unleashed a frenzied smear campaign, casting Egyptian protesters as foreign agents and outside agitators.

— Abdelrahman ElGendy, Time, 6 Oct. 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

Then the rise of talk radio, fueled by right-wing firebrand Limbaugh, and the advent of cable TV, especially Fox News and MSNBC (now MS NOW), started to balkanize the media landscape.

— Edward Robert McClelland, Chicago Tribune, 13 Oct. 2026
Acton holds a narrow edge over Republican firebrand Vivek Ramaswamy, while Kaptur is contending with a tough reelection battle after Ohio Republicans redrew the boundaries of the longtime congresswoman’s district to pull in more GOP voters.

— Mia Cathell, The Washington Examiner, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of firebrand

Noun

Feigenbaum offered a more cautious interpretation, describing some of the violent perpetrators as fringe provocateurs who exploit broader demonstrations without necessarily directing them.

— Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 10 Oct. 2026
Mungiu’s prickly, nonjudgmental studies of human behavior have sometimes led him to be branded as a provocateur.

— Tim Grierson, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of provocateur

Noun

Unsheltered intertwined two plots related to the precarity of American life and the danger of demagogues—one set at the dawn of the MAGA era.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 8 Oct. 2026
Unsheltered intertwined two plots related to the precarity of American life and the danger of demagogues — one set at the dawn of the MAGA era.

— Sam Worley, Vulture, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of demagogue

Noun

Last year, the company dipped its toes into the live events world, serving as the promoter for boy group P1Harmony’s tour — the boy group is slated to perform Saturday at 82World.

— Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 16 Oct. 2026
Before long, a promoter recruited her for his stable of touring female wrestlers.

— Leslie Camhi, New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of promoter

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