provocateur
Example Sentences
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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
In the early days of Monday Night Football, Howard Cosell, the original sports media provocateur, often griped about former NFL players leaving the field and walking into the booth.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 6, 2025
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
With him, the composer as agent provocateur had arrived.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
