agitator

Example Sentences

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“I’m a survivor so this small agitator isn’t going to intimidate me from doing my work. I don’t let bullies win,” she said.

From Salon • Jan. 28, 2026

In a statement on X, Omar said: "I'm ok. I'm a survivor so this small agitator isn't going to intimidate me from doing my work. I don't let bullies win."

From BBC • Jan. 27, 2026

Notorious far-right agitator Tommy Robinson and misogynist influencer Andrew Tate, who faces court cases in Britain and Romania, hail from the town, where about a third of residents are Muslim.

From Barron's • Dec. 28, 2025

Ilya Ehrenburg, the Soviet writer and propagandist who was considered in Germany to be an inflammatory agitator, emerges in a more nuanced light.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025

Once an agitator gathered a crowd around him in front of the Y.M.C.A. building.

From "Homesick" by Jean Fritz