agitator
Example Sentences
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Passion is the great agitator of social norms.
Ilya Ehrenburg, the Soviet writer and propagandist who was considered in Germany to be an inflammatory agitator, emerges in a more nuanced light.
Ms McLaughlin said that "officers repeatedly told the crowd of agitators and journalists to get back, move, and get out of the elevator".
From BBC
Which brings me to the consent theory of power, a favorite of theorists and agitators from way back, updated by Gene Sharp, an advocate of nonviolent resistance.
From Salon
It’s not that Garrett is questioning survivors; rather, she’s examining all sides of a campaign for justice, and scrutinizing the cracks in our culture’s response to assault, recesses where ill-intentioned agitators can make themselves comfortable.
From Salon
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