provocateur
Example Sentences
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And, of course, radio jokester and provocateur Stern.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2026
This is the director’s first film, and you sense him working in the same mode as early Yorgos Lanthimos before the Greek provocateur felt confident that a charismatic performance wouldn’t overshadow his script.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 4, 2026
The reader doesn’t discover much about how Mansfield’s work was shaped by changing personal circumstances, from hectic bohemia to a series of continental spas, and learns too little about Mansfield’s achievements as a literary provocateur.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026
Fuentes famously spent years harassing Kirk and his Turning Point staff at similar college campus events before Kirk banned the provocateur.
From Salon • Oct. 29, 2025
Some provocateur was behind it all, and the children could hardly be blamed—at least, not entirely.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
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