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or protestor
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Recent Examples of protester
At the Alabama Statehouse, a chaotic scene erupted as one protester was dragged from the packed House gallery by security officers.
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Arkansas Online, 9 May 2026
At the Alabama Statehouse, a chaotic scene erupted as one protester was dragged from the packed House gallery by security officers.
—CBS News, 8 May 2026
The next morning, in rainy Washington, the protester came down from the bridge, descending via an internal ladder in the arch.
—Antonia Hitchens, New Yorker, 7 May 2026
The same tone was struck in an Instagram ad recruiting agents, where DHS used a photo showing agents in tactical gear pinning down a protester who was never charged with a crime.
—Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 7 May 2026
Several federal prosecutors who had worked on the Feeding Our Future cases resigned earlier this year in the wake of the death of protester Renee Good, who was fatally shot in January by an ICE agent in Minneapolis.
—Andy Rose, CNN Money, 28 Apr. 2026
Amirhossein Hatami, an 18-year-old protester, was one of those 10 protesters.
—Somayeh Malekian, ABC News, 20 Apr. 2026
Moe, a Minnesota native, is a poet and protester.
—Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 15 Mar. 2026
Several blocked the stage before the program began, but when the audience of 2,000 began to boo, all except one protester stepped down.
—The Atlantic, 17 Feb. 2026
Arkansas Online, 9 May 2026
At the Alabama Statehouse, a chaotic scene erupted as one protester was dragged from the packed House gallery by security officers.
—CBS News, 8 May 2026
The next morning, in rainy Washington, the protester came down from the bridge, descending via an internal ladder in the arch.
—Antonia Hitchens, New Yorker, 7 May 2026
The same tone was struck in an Instagram ad recruiting agents, where DHS used a photo showing agents in tactical gear pinning down a protester who was never charged with a crime.
—Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 7 May 2026
Several federal prosecutors who had worked on the Feeding Our Future cases resigned earlier this year in the wake of the death of protester Renee Good, who was fatally shot in January by an ICE agent in Minneapolis.
—Andy Rose, CNN Money, 28 Apr. 2026
Amirhossein Hatami, an 18-year-old protester, was one of those 10 protesters.
—Somayeh Malekian, ABC News, 20 Apr. 2026
Moe, a Minnesota native, is a poet and protester.
—Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 15 Mar. 2026
Several blocked the stage before the program began, but when the audience of 2,000 began to boo, all except one protester stepped down.
—The Atlantic, 17 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for protester
Noun
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In an interview with Interesting Engineering in June 2025, Drennan said the Phantom 3500 builds on the progress made with its previous model, the Celera 500 demonstrator.—
Chris Young,
Interesting Engineering,
7 May 2026
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The next step is to produce the full-scale Sigma demonstrator, which will really test the design and engineering that's going into this vehicle.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
4 May 2026
Noun
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Mayor Johnson pointed to a visit with Jackson to Selma, Alabama, to commemorate Bloody Sunday — the infamous day in 1965 in which some 600 marchers set off from Selma headed for the state capital of Montgomery in response to a shooting that killed a civil rights activist.—
Adam Harrington,
CBS News,
18 Feb. 2026
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Nearly 61 years ago, Americans watched in horror as peaceful marchers in Selma, Alabama, were attacked for demanding the right to vote.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
10 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Instead of removing the anti-free speech agitators, UNLV police escorted Peer off campus.—
Editorial,
Boston Herald,
9 May 2026
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Instead of removing the anti-free speech agitators, UNLV police escorted Peer off campus.—
Las Vegas Review-Journal,
Twin Cities,
7 May 2026
Noun
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The most explicit objector was Vance, who has been consistently opposed to foreign adventurism, and to this Iran war in particular.—
Andreas Kluth,
Mercury News,
18 Apr. 2026
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But that decision has now been overruled after Haley and a second objector appealed it to the 16th Judicial Circuit Court.—
Joseph States,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Mar. 2026
Noun
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About two months ago a US district court judge ruled that Kari Lake, the MAGA firebrand and election truther, had been illegally appointed to run the US Agency for Global Media, which oversees Voice of America.—
Aidan McLaughlin,
Vanity Fair,
8 May 2026
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All hell broke loose at Thursday's press conference when Khamzat Chimaev and firebrand Sean Strickland nearly turned a routine face-off into a street fight.—
Alejandro Avila OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
8 May 2026
Noun
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McGrath’s work covers artists ranging from indie provocateur Peaches and Denver’s Nathaniel Rateliff to Smashing Pumpkins, Beck, Soundgarden and Steve Martin, so don’t be surprised to see some of your favorites in there.—
John Wenzel,
Denver Post,
7 May 2026
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Just a funny parasocial back-and-forth between some of the most passionate fans in sports and one of the best provocateurs the SEC has seen since Steve Spurrier.—
Austin Perry OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
1 May 2026
Noun
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Assayas portrays the Russian populace as merely manipulated, as if voters were blank slates for effective propaganda rather than people with moral compasses, capacities for judgment and humanity, ideas and opinions that demagogues recognize and stoke.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
13 May 2026
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But demeaning our brand through association with vulgar demagogues is a losing strategy.—
Alma Hernandez,
New York Daily News,
1 May 2026
Noun
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Live Nation Israel was formed in 2017 (along with Ticketmaster Israel) when the concert giant took majority ownership in Israeli concert-production company Bluestone, a joint venture between Guy Oseary, Madonna’s longtime manager, Beser, veteran Israeli promoter Shay Mor Yosef, and others.—
Shirley Halperin,
Rolling Stone,
14 May 2026
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Bambo follows a 1980s Brooklyn boxing promoter and his daughter.—
Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
14 May 2026
Cite this Entry
“Protester.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/protester. Accessed 16 May. 2026.
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