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 Dylan Kupsh, 27, emerged as a vocal UCLA protester and an outlier in the campus movement. — Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2026 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

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Noun

Rheinmetall Laser Weapon System Rheinmetall and MBDA Germany have developed a naval laser demonstrator intended to defeat drones and other small, rapidly moving targets.

— Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 5 Sep. 2026
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

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

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

Their manager has not been the firebrand from the University of Tennessee that everyone expected.

— Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026
The independent, nonpartisan survey by EPIC-MRA of Lansing shows El-Sayed, the former director of Detroit and Wayne County's health departments and progressive firebrand, leading Rogers 47%-43% with 10% undecided.

— Todd Spangler, Freep.com, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of firebrand

Noun

Linnetz relishes in his identity as a provocateur, a detail about him which has, in fact, produced more viral moments in five years than most people have in their entire career as a designer.

— Julissa James, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2026
As social media evolved, Kiffin innovated, without regret, as the sport’s biggest poster and provocateur.

— Matt Baker, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of provocateur

Noun

This included understanding the history of democratic ideas and practical governance, as well as the need to protect minority groups and the dangers posed by demagogues.

— Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 1 Sep. 2026
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

Definition of demagogue

Noun

At the time, there was no real professional scene for female fighters, with the major promoters not seeing any commercial value in it.

— Sarah Shephard, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026
The moving event was organized by PR industry powerhouses Helen Shelton and Angelo Ellerbee along with event promoter Roz Nixon.

— Richard Johnson, New York Daily News, 6 Sep. 2026

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