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

Though she herself was never actually connected with bombs & bloodshed, Emma Goldman's burgeoning reputation as a fomenter of trouble led the police into many an attempt to pin something on her.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Pope himself he railed was a factious person, as a fomenter of sedition and revolt.

From Pius IX. And His Time by Dawson, Æneas MacDonell