provocateur
Example Sentences
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In concert, she’s powerful, hardly a princess of perfection but gorgeously garish, a fun and funny powerhouse provocateur, dripping in costumes, onstage audience members and sweat.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 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
The reporter in question, under fire from an irate supervisor, describes himself on Twitter as the “White House correspondent” for right-wing provocateur Tim Pool’s podcast.
From Slate • Oct. 10, 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
