PROVOKERS Synonyms: 47 Similar and Opposite Words

provokers

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plural of provoker

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The crackdown prompted alarm among radicals as signs increasingly showed the government treating political violence as a product of organized networks, not just individual defendants.

— Hudson Crozier, The Washington Examiner, 9 Nov. 2026
The light generates highly reactive chlorine radicals that activate carbon atoms along the polymer chains without destroying them.

— Muskan Bhatia, Interesting Engineering, 5 Nov. 2026

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Here the three were, as what some would call a band of outsiders, telling a story about these insurgents to the distinguished Fleet Street, where the most esteemed newspapers like The Daily Mirror were published.

— Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 10 Nov. 2026
But establishments don’t fade away so easily — and insurgents don’t automatically shun them.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2026

Definition of insurgents

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Struck by the negative representations of Arabs in the media, Odeh was appointed regional director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, whose East Coast offices had been targeted by extremists in 1985.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2026
In Nice, far-right extremists fought with demonstrators downtown and 11 people were arrested, regional authorities said.

— Thomas Adamson, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2026

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The rebels made a lightning advance capturing much of Yemen's Red Sea coast and strategic islands in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.

— AHMED HATEM, Arkansas Online, 8 Nov. 2026
Ethiopia’s Foreign Ministry rejected similar Sudanese accusations in a May 5 statement, calling them baseless, and accused Sudan of supporting rebels in its northern Tigray region.

— ABC News, ABC News, 4 Nov. 2026

Definition of rebels

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Like his fellow revolutionaries, Jefferson recoiled from such aspects of empire, past and present.

— Jackson Lears, Harpers Magazine, 27 Oct. 2026
But, even then, American socialists walked a fine line—they were considered too radical for the mainstream and a mere bourgeois affectation by committed class revolutionaries.

— Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2026

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