PROVOKER Synonyms: 47 Similar and Opposite Words

provoker

noun

as in prompter

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Noun

Everyone — even Trent [Reznor]’s thing — was on the prompter.

— Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2026
Today, while a prompter interacts directly with the separate query, an architect is a multi-responsible person.

— Taras Tymoshchuk, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026

Definition of prompter

Noun

Mali’s junta has accused Algeria of backing local extremist rebels who are linked to the Muslim militant group al-Qaida.

— ABC News, ABC News, 11 July 2026
That was the year the United States went to war with Spain in Cuba alongside Cuban and Puerto Rican rebels and in the Philippines.

— Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026

Definition of rebel

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This year’s milestone edition furthers that legacy by pairing foundational film voices with the next generation of artistic troublemakers.

— Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 2 July 2026
To help boost those numbers, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWCC) recently released a brief PSA video advising on the best ways to locate and dispatch the ongoing troublemakers.

— Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 2 July 2026

Definition of troublemaker

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Fujimori, 51, is the daughter of late President Alberto Fujimori, who governed the country with an iron fist from 1990 to 2000 and was credited with defeating Maoist insurgents and taming runaway hyperinflation.

— Reuters, NBC news, 4 July 2026
Syria has been without a parliament since the December 2024 offensive by insurgents led by al-Sharaa’s now defunct Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group, which ended the Assad family’s five-decade dynasty.

— Ghaith Alsayed, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026

Definition of insurgent

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The planned demonstration of force was timed to bring a fringe group of extremists into public view as the nation marked 250 years of its independence.

— Odette Yousef, NPR, 11 July 2026
Labour lawmaker Jo Cox was shot and stabbed in 2016 by a far-right extremist, and Conservative David Amess was stabbed in 2021 by an attacker inspired by the Islamic State group.

— ABC News, ABC News, 11 July 2026

Definition of extremist

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Elsie Peacock Hand has been a mayor, bank vice president, country music promoter, and longtime political aide and booster, Patricia Murphy writes.

— Adam Beam, AJC.com, 6 July 2026
Other guests in attendance include AMC Theatres CEO Adam Aron, Steven Spielberg, Bob Iger, Dana Walden, Universal Music Group chairman Lucian Grainge, Republic Records founders Monte and Avery Lipman and Swift’s longtime tour promoter Louie Messina.

— Jack Dunn, Variety, 3 July 2026

Definition of promoter

Noun

Even temporary sales slumps breed alarmist pronouncements; book parties in disfavored genres begin to feel like wakes, sending off one more spirit to the inevitable afterworld of the remainder shelf.

— Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 2 July 2026
The title struck some readers as alarmist.

— Joseph Andrew, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026

Definition of alarmist

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