activist
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Asked if this was a sign of increasing activism and intervention in the markets, Bessent countered this wasn’t the case: “We are not an activist Treasury.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 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
Word spread quickly, and soon a throng of smartphone-wielding citizens had surrounded the immigration enforcement van, which couldn’t move because one enterprising, early-arriving activist had slid underneath it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
In 2025, Alysia McMillan, then a Republican activist, attended a news conference in the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
Whitney Young was named for a civil rights activist and had been opened in 1975 as a positive-minded alternative to busing.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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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
Dalit pauses to show me a tree planted long ago by her parents, who were co-founders of the kibbutz, known for its farming and peace activists.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
Since then, some 130 million names have been deleted from final or preliminary electoral rolls, according to tallies from official data compiled by activists.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
Recounted in numberless articles and books, the Maya collapse has become an ecological parable for green activists; along with Pleistocene overkill, it is a favorite cautionary tale about surpassing the limits of Nature.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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