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Recent Examples of Synonyms for provokers
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American Muslims for Palestine has repeatedly come under fire over leading members’ past ties to foreign terrorists, though the group denies supporting such radicals.
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Every House Democrat, in safe and competitive districts alike, will now answer to the radicals calling the shots.
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Sistan-Baluchistan, which borders Pakistan and Afghanistan, has long seen clashes between security forces, insurgents and drug smugglers.
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Nine American soldiers died and 27 others were injured while fighting a battle against 200 Taliban insurgents in the village of Wanat in Afghanistan’s Waygal Valley.
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Opportunists like the daycare group, which was selling weapons, and extremists — not the hobbyists.
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Many of these decisions were made so Netanyahu could retain the support of the far-right extremists keeping him in power and avoid a possible jail sentence on corruption charges.
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And the old person who rebels is ridiculous.
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There was relative peace for 11 years, until a second civil war erupted in 1983, when leaders in Khartoum imposed sharia (Islamic) law and accelerated repression of the southern Christian rebels, which ultimately allowed a ruthless military officer, Omar al-Bashir, to come to power in 1989.
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Thomas Hobbes took a very dim view of rebels and insurrectionists.
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The recipients will almost surely be insurrectionists and other allies.
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The book looked at the world of a swath of Irish women emigrants who were deemed troublemakers, highlighting that for a period of time, Irish women outnumbered Irish men in prison.
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Meanwhile, younger brother Sam begins to suspect that Michael's new friends are not merely troublemakers, but vampires.
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Loners lashing out America has had genuine subversives and left-wing terror networks in the past.
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Or was July 4, 1776, for the revolutionaries who founded the US, actually an undistinguished day?
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Trade the tricorn hats, bonnets and homespun shirts for flip flops, sneakers and soccer jerseys, and the intrepid revolutionaries of 1776 would have looked a lot like the people of 2026.
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“Provokers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/provokers. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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