provoker

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Noun
  • Today, while a prompter interacts directly with the separate query, an architect is a multi-responsible person.
    Taras Tymoshchuk, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
  • As always, let the prompter beware.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 3 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Analysts, including those at the ISP-M, say China has intermittently backed both Myanmar's ruling military, and the rebels that military is battling in the country's civil war, depending on its varying economic and security interests.
    CBS News, CBS News, 12 June 2026
  • The celebratory tours take visitors through the city's historic brick roads and along the bayfront, uncovering colonial stories of East Florida's loyalty to the British, imprisoned founding fathers and patriot rebels.
    Amy Galo, FOXNews.com, 12 June 2026
Noun
  • Meanwhile, younger brother Sam begins to suspect that Michael's new friends are not merely troublemakers, but vampires.
    Dave Quinn, PEOPLE, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Retaliation can include being assigned to a station far from home, passed up for promotions or labeled a troublemaker.
    Alene Tchekmedyian, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The outbreak, reported in 14 of Borno state’s 27 local governments, is unfolding in communities with health systems made fragile by nearly two decades of violent extremism from the Boko Haram insurgent group.
    ABC News, ABC News, 9 June 2026
  • After Daft Punk’s rise from underground dance music heroes to chart-topping pop insurgents, Bangalter followed different muses in different directions.
    Andy Battaglia, ARTnews.com, 8 June 2026
Noun
  • But, increasingly convinced that Mossadegh was an extremist allied with communism, the Eisenhower administration began to plot his ouster.
    Andrew Arsan, The New York Review of Books, 6 June 2026
  • Increasingly, however, that tent seems to have room for radicals and ideological extremists while pushing out Democrats who think independently.
    Doug Friednash, Denver Post, 3 June 2026
Noun
  • Gather Honest Outside Feedback Have a third party contact your customers at key intervals and capture their net promoter score.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
  • The Buffaloes are, as promised by promoters, a power conference foe for the Aztecs in the inaugural game honoring San Diego native Bill Walton, who passed away in May 2024.
    Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 June 2026
Noun
  • Thomas Hobbes took a very dim view of rebels and insurrectionists.
    Austin Sarat, Fortune, 24 May 2026
  • The recipients will almost surely be insurrectionists and other allies.
    Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic, 19 May 2026
Noun
  • Gaspar took the unusual step of naming the teachers publicly, a move that Sanchez’s supporters call alarmist.
    Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 3 May 2026
  • The longer the fighting and shipping disruptions last, the worse and more worrisome the cumulative impact becomes, and the more plausible the initial alarmist views about $200 crude oil and stagflation begin to seem.
    Michael Santoli, CNBC, 30 Mar. 2026
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“Provoker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/provoker. Accessed 14 Jun. 2026.

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