provoker

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Noun
  • As always, let the prompter beware.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 3 Apr. 2026
  • To keep that rhythm, the prompter has to talk over the other actor’s lines.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • In March, Washington sanctioned Rwanda’s defense forces and several senior officials, accusing them of funding the M23 rebels who have taken over mineral-rich areas of eastern DR Congo.
    Tiisetso Motsoeneng, semafor.com, 15 May 2026
  • Chance understands why some kids rebel.
    Andrew R. Chow, Time, 14 May 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
  • Many advanced states understand the need for some kind of violent reaction to terrorists or insurgents, usually as a task for special-operations forces.
    Eliot A. Cohen, The Atlantic, 11 May 2026
  • Both political insurgents were elected under extraordinary circumstances.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2026
Noun
  • He was succeeded by his son, Mojtaba Khamenei, who is considered more of an ideological extremist than his father.
    Michael Collins, USA Today, 8 May 2026
  • Her prank of lying in wait for each of her housemates, bombarding them with a Super Soaker, and then enlisting them in her eco-army of Seussian extremists was just pure wonderful delight.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 6 May 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • Bambo follows a 1980s Brooklyn boxing promoter and his daughter.
    Glenn Garner, Deadline, 14 May 2026
Noun
  • Trump started his second presidency by pardoning the insurrectionists who’d wanted to unlawfully extend his first.
    Tom Nichols, The Atlantic, 23 Feb. 2026
  • People's Liberation Army troops under Mao's control either ignored the violence or offered support to the insurrectionists while the country descended into lawlessness and retribution.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 22 Jan. 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 17 May. 2026.

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