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activist

[ak-tuh-vist] / ˈæk tə vɪst /
NOUN
abolitionist
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NOUN
propagandist
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NOUN
protestor
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André, who is Black, has long been a vocal social and cultural activist.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

“This is not a surprising thing in India,” said Amrita Johri, an activist who has brought a legal challenge to the process.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

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

“Older debtors are the fastest-growing demographic of debtors,” said Eleni Schirmer, an organizer with the Debt Collective debtor activist organization, who is writing a book on the rise of aging borrowers.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

Ellsberg called his friend Howard Zinn, a Boston University professor and antiwar activist.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin

But tech workers, activists and politicians fear that humans could lose control of the technology they’re advancing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

The toy maker faces a falling stock, a departed CEO, and shareholder activists pushing for a sale.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

South Korean activists campaigning for workplace safety in the nation's booming semiconductor industry called on the government on Wednesday to recognise the cancer diagnoses of three former SK hynix employees as work-related illnesses.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

Following pressure from anti-capital-punishment activists, pharmaceutical companies have placed restrictions on their drugs for use in executions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

I’m not surprised Coach West would know my costume is for one of the Black Panther activists.

From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée




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