provocateur
Example Sentences
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For months during the unrest of 2020, Americans watched racial justice demonstrations in the Pacific Northwest in which the police either intervened with violence or left protesters feeling vulnerable to attack by right-wing provocateurs.
From Washington Post
The right-wing provocateur Jack Posobiec pushed out a “deepfake” video last month of Mr. Biden announcing a national draft because of the conflict in Ukraine.
From New York Times
Like any interdisciplinary provocateur in the 1980s, she was an “occasional friend and occasional enemy” of Susan Sontag.
From New York Times
Katsoupis is more of a snotty provocateur with the elegance to posture as deep.
From New York Times
But he also warned that those spreading "fake news" and "causing social chaos" would be prosecuted, calling them "provocateurs".
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
