agitator
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One possible approach is buying the stock when the agitator is first making noise and then selling if the target company finally gives in to an activist’s demands.
From Barron's • Feb. 25, 2026
In a statement on X, Omar said: "I'm ok. I'm a survivor so this small agitator isn't going to intimidate me from doing my work. I don't let bullies win."
From BBC • Jan. 27, 2026
Within hours, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection officials released a familiar statement: an agent, they said, had acted in lawful self-defense against an armed and violent agitator.
From Slate • Jan. 25, 2026
Passion is the great agitator of social norms.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025
His instincts of an agitator remained dormant as long as Don Apolinar Moscote was a figurehead.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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