agitator
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One possible approach is buying the stock when the agitator is first making noise and then selling if the target company finally gives in to an activist’s demands.
From Barron's • Feb. 25, 2026
In a statement on X, Omar said: "I'm ok. I'm a survivor so this small agitator isn't going to intimidate me from doing my work. I don't let bullies win."
From BBC • Jan. 27, 2026
Ilya Ehrenburg, the Soviet writer and propagandist who was considered in Germany to be an inflammatory agitator, emerges in a more nuanced light.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025
Dan Timmer, who drove down that morning from Iowa City, where he was visiting family, joked he was coming in from the big city to be an agitator.
From Slate • Oct. 22, 2025
But when Carrie Chapman Catt went to Nashville to lobby the legislators, the antis treated her as an outside agitator.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
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