fomenter

Example Sentences

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He wasn’t just a sharply critical, sharp-elbowed political-social commentator; he was, for four decades, an acid-tonged, angry fomenter whose attacks and diatribes often veered into the ugly and worse.

From Washington Post • Feb. 26, 2021

Another explanation might be that famed fomenter of teen fads, TikTok.

From Slate • Dec. 19, 2020

An early fomenter of Bloody Mary zaniness was Dave Sobelman, proprietor of several namesake establishments around Milwaukee.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 8, 2018

"Sometime acrobat, magician, horse thief, highwayman, circus-man, poet, sculptor, fomenter of disturbances in the Far East and superb Baron Munchausen."

From Time Magazine Archive

Mr. Martin Csicseri was so far moved by the piteous lamentations of the Leather-bell as to promise not to cast him into irons and send him to the county jail as a fomenter of sedition.

From The Day of Wrath by Bain, R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet)