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

Were anyone to tell them: “The World Reformer is come”, they would answer and say: “Indeed it is proven that He is a fomenter of discord!”

From The Summons of the Lord of Hosts by Bahá'u'lláh