agitator

Example Sentences

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He said the city was being destroyed by paid agitators.

From Salon

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

Ms McLaughlin said that "officers repeatedly told the crowd of agitators and journalists to get back, move, and get out of the elevator".

From BBC

Which brings me to the consent theory of power, a favorite of theorists and agitators from way back, updated by Gene Sharp, an advocate of nonviolent resistance.

From Salon

The coalition between our plutocracy and the lowest reaches of internet trolls and right-wing agitators is hardly unprecedented.

From Salon