provoker

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for provoker
Noun
  • The Houthis paused attacks until the U.S. launched a broad assault against the rebels in mid-March.
    Sydney Lake, Fortune, 8 July 2025
  • Shortly after that, Israeli airstrikes on Iranian weapons shipments to Hezbollah across neighboring Syria — at the time, a key ally of Iran — weakened the dictatorship of President Bashar al-Assad, who was overthrown last December by rebels.
    James Hider, NPR, 7 July 2025
Noun
  • Employees might hesitate to speak up out of fear of retaliation, damaging their reputation, or simply being seen as a troublemaker.
    Rhett Power, Forbes.com, 6 July 2025
  • Even though Spivey admitted to shooting him, the defense portrayed Hambright as a troublemaker and the jury acquitted Spivey of murder.
    Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
Noun
  • The warning issue June 11 said terrorist and insurgent groups regularly attacked Iraqi security forces and civilians and anti-U.S. militias threatened U.S. citizens and international companies.
    Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 June 2025
  • The Iranian regime has held Americans hostage and supported terrorists and insurgents who have killed U.S. service members in Lebanon and Iraq.
    Reid Smith, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • His trajectory in the music industry went from concert promoter and artist manager to entrepreneur who launched Absolute Merch with no funding in 2012.
    Andrea Zarczynski, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
  • Just hours after tickets went on sale Thursday (June 26) for the legendary rock band’s 2025 stadium tour, promoter TEG Van Egmond has announced second dates in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane due to overwhelming demand.
    Jessica Lynch, Billboard, 26 June 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
  • And many revolutionists think that new equipment has changed the patterns of advance and retreat in Ukraine relative to historical experience.
    Stephen Biddle, Foreign Affairs, 10 Aug. 2023
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“Provoker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/provoker. Accessed 12 Jul. 2025.

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