fomenter
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“Out” was the factory as the crucible of revolution; “in” was the university as fomenter of upheaval.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
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
They will predicate peace, that the people may be tractable to them; but a religion altogether pacific is the fomenter of wars and the nurse of crimes, alluring Sloth from within and Violence from afar.
From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Walter Savage Landor
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