activist
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Adalah said Abu Shehadeh's decades of public life as a human rights activist, legislator and party leader demonstrated his "consistent and unequivocal opposition to violence of any kind".
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
Hawks is a retired businesswoman and a Republican activist.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
The company is reviewing an activist shareholder’s proposal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
El Mansouri has rejected her portrayal as an "iron woman", telling Pam's magazine in 2021: "I am neither a woman of steel nor iron... I am a free activist."
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
I have always been an activist, and my personal chemistry perhaps made me reach more quickly than most ministers in the Nation of Islam that stage of dedication.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
He has even urged the party's activists to leave the conference over the weekend to help him campaign.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
Tran's wife, Chloe Dang, told Australian media he had been meeting pro-democracy activists in Cambodia and had no intention of travelling to Vietnam.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
Unions and other activists had pressed for more commitments from the Olympic organizers at the time of the 2021 contract signing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026
She makes herself sick with guilt over her choices, reaching out to activists and her daughter’s former educators to help her make sense of the problem and her response to it.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
Out on the sidewalk in front of the building, a knot of activists waved signs and shouted chants, though I can’t remember what it was they were angry about.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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