provoker

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Noun
  • The New York Times in 2015 reported that hundreds of Colombian mercenaries had been sent to Yemen to fight against the Houthi rebels, hired directly — and in secret — by the UAE.
    Rebecca Johns, Miami Herald, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Tapping into your inner rebel as of late, Sagittarius?
    Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 6 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In a recent study published in Nature Aging, researchers at UC San Francisco sought to identify the molecular troublemakers that cause our brains to age prematurely.
    Pranjal Malewar, New Atlas, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Her Ashley is the movie’s fourth and fifth wheel, dismissed as both a perfidious troublemaker and a New Age airhead—a life coach in need of a wife coach.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • This might enable a mission which, for example, a Viper is located covertly next to a safe house known to be used by insurgents.
    David Hambling, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • As the occupation wore on, the Iraqis became proficient at building roadside bombs in basements, garages, and other insurgent test kitchens spread across Baghdad and Anbar.
    Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 2 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • TikTok, Bluesky, Substack, the gaming platform Discord and other new players, big and small, can all learn from past policies for keeping extremists off the Internet—and return to those content moderation roots.
    Steven Stalinsky, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • High-profile extremists of the time such as Richard Butler, Robert Mathews and David Lane supported the plan.
    Paul J. Becker, The Conversation, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • For instance, when the Martins were broke, before Christy gained the attention of legendary boxing promoter Don King, Jim, played on screen in a terrifying performance by Ben Foster, would take her to motel rooms to spar with men who would pay for the opportunity.
    Esther Zuckerman, Time, 6 Sep. 2025
  • The Geiers are widely viewed with contempt as promoters of unsubstantiated claims that vaccines cause autism.
    Judy Stone, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • It was left to Keys to try to corral the insurrectionists, who were day-drinking in the lobby.
    Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Kinzinger goes on to say that when the insurrectionist is one of their own, the rules are different.
    Tom Jurkowsky, Baltimore Sun, 11 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • In a country shackled and scarred by race, religion, gender, and class, much of that rationalized and reified by mainline American churches, the Disciples were genial revolutionists offering inclusion, education, and empowerment for those at the margins.
    Richard D. Mahoney, JSTOR Daily, 30 Apr. 2025
  • As the head of China’s Nationalist government, Chiang and his party were trying to establish control in a nation divided among revolutionists, nationalists, Indigenous warlords, and a developing communist army and government.
    Susan Tate Ankeny, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Apr. 2024
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“Provoker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/provoker. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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